News By Location

26-Jun-2009

New research may help address radionuclide contamination at DOE sites

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Grant and Award Announcement

Five years from now, lab scientists will be able to better determine how, when and why plutonium moves in soil and groundwater.

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DOE/US Department of Energy

23-Jun-2009

Green chemistry: Using lasers to detect explosives and hazardous waste

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Berkeley Lab scientists are pioneering laser ablation techniques that can detect explosives and hazardous waste in seconds, with no chemical waste. The technology can save the lives of soldiers, keep children safe from toys illegally coated with lead paints, and protect workers from chemical poisoning.

16-Jun-2009

Berkeley Lab scientists contribute to major new report describing climate change impacts on the US

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Two researchers at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Evan Mills and Michael Wehner, contributed to the analysis of the effects of climate change on all regions of the United States, described in a major report released today by the multiagency US Global Change Research Program. For the southwest region of the United States, which includes California, the report forecasts a hotter, drier climate with significant effects on the environment, agriculture and health.

16-Jun-2009

Nanocrystals reveal activity within cells

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created bright, stable and bio-friendly nanocrystals that act as individual investigators of activity within a cell. These ideal light emitting probes represent a significant step in scrutinizing the behaviors of proteins and other components in complex systems such as a living cell

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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DOE/US Department of Energy

16-Jun-2009

Extreme makeover chemistry style

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In revisiting a chemical reaction that's been in the literature for several decades and adding a new wrinkle of their own, researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California Berkeley have discovered a mild and relatively inexpensive procedure for removing oxygen from biomass. This procedure, if it can be effectively industrialized, could allow many of today's petrochemical products, including plastics, to instead be made from biomass.

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DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

16-Jun-2009

Report provides assessment of national, regional impacts of climate change

DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers representing 13 US government science agencies, major universities and research institutes, including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, produced the study entitled "Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States."

15-Jun-2009

NERSC helps expose cosmic transients

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Finding fleeting cosmic events not only requires the right kind of telescope and camera, it depends on high-performance computing to pinpoint objects of interest among thousands of images while there's still time for follow-up observations. Caltech joins forces with the US Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, in just such a search, the Palomar Transient Factory.

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DOE/US Department of Energy

15-Jun-2009

New exotic material could revolutionize electronics

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Move over, silicon -- it may be time to give the Valley a new name. Physicists at the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have confirmed the existence of a type of material that could one day provide dramatically faster, more efficient computer chips.

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DOE/US Department of Energy, Chinese National Science Foundation

10-Jun-2009

Bilayer graphene gets a bandgap

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Graphene's electrical properties include electrons so mobile they travel at near light speed. But without a bandgap, graphene's promise for electronics and photonics can't be realized. Now researchers at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley can precisely tune a bandgap in bilayer graphene from zero to 0.25 eV, in the infrared energy region.

Journal

Nature

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DOE/US Department of Energy

3-Jun-2009

A billion-year ultra-dense memory chip

DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Berkeley Lab researchers have created a unique new memory storage medium that can pack thousands of times more data into one square inch of space than conventional chips, and preserve this data for more than a billion years.

Journal

Nano Letters

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DOE/US Department of Energy