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Nano-Spike Catalyst Convert Carbon Dioxide Directly into Ethanol
In a new twist to waste-to-fuel technology, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon and copper to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol. Their finding, which involves nanofabrication and catalysis science, was serendipitous.
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Peering Into Batteries: X-Rays Reveal Lithium-Ion’s Mysteries
Researchers are using the Office of Science’s advanced light sources to study batteries in real-time.
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SUE Lends a Hand: Field Museum Scientists Remove T. rex’s Arm for Argonne Study
Two Field Museum scientists are leaving their labs and going face-to-face with SUE, the biggest Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered, armed only with a wrench. And they’re going to take her arm off.
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Still No 'Sterile' Neutrinos, But the Search Goes On
Reports of the non-existence of the so-called “sterile” neutrino are premature, say scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory—even as they release results from two experiments that further limit the places this elusive particle may be hiding.
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New Equipment Allows Ames Laboratory and ISU Researchers to Simulate Commercial Materials Processing
Researchers at Iowa State University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have a new tool to help understand and fine-tune the processing of materials in a variety of commercial techniques.
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Simulations Show How to Turn Graphene’s Defects into Assets
Researchers at Penn State, the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company have developed methods to control defects in two-dimensional materials, such as graphene, that may lead to improved membranes for water desalination, energy storage, sensing or advanced protective coatings.
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ALCF Summer Student Projects Tackle Real-World Problems
Dominique Hoskin took an important first step towards a future career in designing commercial aircrafts by spending his summer working with high-performance computing (HPC) codes at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility.
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SNS Accelerator Celebrates 10 Years of Leading the Way
The first of its kind superconducting linear particle accelerator (LINAC) built for the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now celebrating 10 years of successful operations.
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Smallest. Transistor. Ever.
A research team led by faculty scientist Ali Javey at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has created a transistor with a working 1-nanometer gate. For comparison, a strand of human hair is about 50,000 nanometers thick.
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The Incredible Shrinking Particle Accelerator
WarpIV, a new data analysis/visualization toolkit developed at Berkeley Lab, is designed to help speed particle accelerator research and design by enabling in situ visualization and analysis of accelerator simulations at scale
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Enhancing the Superconducting Properties of an Iron-Based Material
A team of scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory has come up with a way to double the amount of electrical current an iron-based material can carry without losing its superconducting properties, while increasing the material's critical temperature.
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A Cooperative Way to Make Ammonia
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are gaining a better understanding of how bacteria fix nitrogen molecules into ammonia that could lead to energy savings in industrial processes such as those that produce fertilizer.
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