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Halving Hydrogen
First view of nature-inspired catalyst after ripping hydrogen apart provides insights for better, cheaper fuel cells.
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Oregon State and Argonne Lab Scientists Successfully Use Krypton To Accurately Date Ancient Antarctic Ice
New technique shows sample to be 120,000 years old, and may allow scientists to identify ice more than 1 million years old.
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Tracking Particles Faster at the LHC
A new trigger system will expand what ATLAS scientists can look for during high-energy collisions at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Surprising Material Could Play Role in Saving Energy
Researchers at Northwestern University discover tin selenide is best at converting waste heat to electricity.
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'Exotic' Material is Like a Switch When Super Thin
Researchers from Cornell and Brookhaven National Laboratory have shown how to switch a particular transition metal oxide, a lanthanum nickelate (LaNiO3), from a metal to an insulator by making the material less than a nanometer thick.
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Jefferson Lab's CEBAF Accelerator Achieves 12 GeV Commissioning Milestone
Following an upgrade of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, the CEBAF accelerator delivered the highest-energy electron beams it has ever produced into a target in an experimental hall, recording the first data of the 12 GeV era.
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Brookhaven and SLAC Scientists Capture Ultrafast Snapshots of Light-Driven Superconductivity
X-rays reveal how rapidly vanishing 'charge stripes' may be behind laser-induced high-temperature superconductivity.
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Schwartz Named Director of U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory
Dr. Schwartz’s outstanding scientific credentials, leadership skills, and vision will be tremendous assets in moving the Lab forward.
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Inspiring the Next Generation of Innovators
President Obama honors the nation's cutting-edge scientists and engineers.
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Energy Secretary Moniz Announces 2013 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award Winners
U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz today announced six exceptional U.S. scientists and engineers as recipients of the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award for their contributions in research and development that supports the Energy Department’s science, energy and national security missions.
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Growing Shoots and Sugary Stems
Study by researchers at Brookhaven Lab and the University of Queensland supports idea that sugars play a key role in regulating branching at plant stems.
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Stanford Scientists Discover a Novel Way to Make Ethanol Without Corn or Other Plants
Stanford scientists have created a copper-based catalyst that produces large quantities of ethanol from carbon monoxide gas at room temperature.
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