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How Chemicals Spread in Soils
A group of researchers from multiple institutions including EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed models of how water and chemicals flow in soils, which could help capture the spread of underground contaminants.
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Want to Print Your Own Cell Phone Microscope for Pennies?
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a sleek, simple and inexpensive way to turn a cell phone into a high powered, high quality microscope that can be used to identify biological samples in the field.
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Elusive Quantum Transformations Found Near Absolute Zero
Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University researchers measure the quantum fluctuations behind a novel magnetic material's ultra-cold ferromagnetic phase transition.
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Decoding Virus-Host Interactions in the Oxygen-Starved Ocean
In a first of its kind study, exploiting the unique strength of single-cell genomics, the DOE Joint Genome Institute and collaborators at the University of Arizona and the University of British Columbia explored virus-host dynamics to reveal that viruses appear to be much more key to marine microbial ecology below sunlit surface waters than suspected.
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Study Sheds New Light on Why Batteries Go Bad
Rapid charging and draining doesn’t damage lithium ion electrode as much as thought.
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Imaging Fuel Injectors with Neutrons
A team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is attempting to make the first-ever neutron images of cavitation, the physical event that leads to bubble/gas formation, inside the body of a gasoline fuel injector.
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Advanced Light Source Sets Microscopy Record
Berkeley Lab researchers achieve highest resolution ever with x-ray microscopy.
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Angling Chromium to Let Oxygen Through
New semiconducting material created at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory works at temperatures low enough to improve fuel cell efficiency.
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Buckyballs and Diamondoids Join Forces in Tiny Electronic Gadget
Scientists at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory craft two exotic forms of carbon into a molecule for steering electron flow.
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New Catalyst Converts CO₂to Fuel
Calculations run at NERSC help confirm University of Illinois breakthrough.
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A Metallic Alloy That is Tough and Ductile at Cryogenic Temperatures
Researchers at Berkeley and Oak Ridge Labs test a multi-element high-entropy alloy with surprising results.
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Scientists Map Protein in Living Bacterial Cells
Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have for the first time mapped the atomic structure of a protein within a living cell. The technique, which peered into cells with an X-ray laser, could allow scientists to explore some components of living cells as never before.
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