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Public Release: 15-Sep-2008
DOE's Jefferson Lab receives approval to start construction of $310M upgrade
The US Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility today received approval from DOE to begin construction on a $310 million project that will provide physicists worldwide with an unprecedented ability to study the basic building blocks of the visible universe.
US Department of Energy

Contact: Dean Golembeski
deang@jlab.org
757-269-7689
DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Public Release: 15-Sep-2008
Cancer Research
Nanomedical approach targets multiple cancer genes, shrinks tumors more effectively
Nanoparticles filled with a drug that targets two genes that trigger melanoma could offer a potential cure for this deadly disease, according to cancer researchers. The treatment, administered through an ultrasound device, demonstrates a safer and more effective way of targeting cancer-causing genes in cancer cells without harming normal tissue.
American Cancer Society, Foreman Foundation for Melanoma Research, US Department of Energy

Contact: Amitabh Avasthi
axa47@psu.edu
814-865-9481
Penn State

Public Release: 15-Sep-2008
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Cyanobacterium sequenced features rare linear chromosome
A team of researchers headed by biologists at Washington University in St. Louis has sequenced the genome of a unique bacterium that manages two disparate operations -- photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation -- in one little cell during two distinct cycles daily. Himadri. Pakrasi, WUSTL professor of biology, spearheaded the drive to sequence the genome of Cyanothece sp. ATCC 51142 , which can produce ethanol and hydrogen, and thus possibly become an inexpensive renewable energy source.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, Danforth Foundation

Contact: Gayle Geren
geren@wustl.edu
314-935-7163
Washington University in St. Louis

Public Release: 15-Sep-2008
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Photosynthesizing bacteria with a day-night cycle contain rare chromosome
Researchers sequencing the DNA of the blue-green algae Cyanothece 51142 found a linear chromosome harboring genes important for producing biofuels. Simultaneously analyzing the complement of proteins revealed more genes on the linear and typical circular chromosomes then they'd have found with DNA sequencing alone.
US Department of Energy, Washington University

Contact: Mary Beckman
mary.beckman@pnl.gov
509-375-3688
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Public Release: 12-Sep-2008
Physical Review Letters
Moving quarks help solve proton spin puzzle
New theory work at the US Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has shown that more than half of the spin of the proton is the result of the movement of its building blocks: quarks. The result, published in the Sept. 5 issue of Physical Review Letters, agrees with recent experiments and supercomputer calculations.
US Department of Energy

Contact: Kandice Carter
kcarter@jlab.org
757-269-7263
DOE/Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Public Release: 12-Sep-2008
Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2008
DOE has just released the 27th edition of the Transportation Energy Data Book. Specialized skills and instruments are helping a major manufacturer of microturbines make products expected to set new standards for performance and reliability. Fragments of tektites, natural glass objects, discovered by a team of geologists and geochemists help support a theory that a meteorite may be responsible for the sudden climate change that devastated large mammals in North America 11,000 years ago.

Contact: Ron Walli
wallira@ornl.gov
865-576-0226
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Public Release: 11-Sep-2008
Science
A snapshot of the transformation
Researchers have achieved a milestone in materials science and electron microscopy by taking a high-resolution snapshot of the transformation of nanoscale structures.

Contact: Anne Stark
stark8@llnl.gov
925-422-9799
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Public Release: 11-Sep-2008
Particle physics, podcasts and pajama party
Today marks the startup of the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland -- the first time protons circulate through its full 27 km circumference. International Science Grid This Week brings you podcasts straight from the local control centers and a report from the scene at Fermilab's Remote Operations Center where scientists stayed up for a 2 a.m. "pajama party" to celebrate in real time.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy

Contact: Anne Heavey
anne.heavey@isgtw.org
630-518-6394
International Science Grid

Public Release: 11-Sep-2008
INL nuclear materials detection technology wins national security award
Research proven to safely detect hidden nuclear materials smuggled into ports and across borders has earned the 2008 $25,000 Homeland Security Award sponsored by the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation and AgustaWestland North America Inc.

Contact: Ethan Huffman
ethan.huffman@inl.gov
208-521-0370
DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

Public Release: 10-Sep-2008
Nature
Old growth forests are valuable carbon sinks
Contrary to 40 years of conventional wisdom, a new analysis to be published Friday in the journal Nature suggests that old growth forests are usually "carbon sinks" -- they continue to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and mitigate climate change for centuries.
US Department of Energy

Contact: Beverly Law
bev.law@oregonstate.edu
541-737-6111
Oregon State University

Public Release: 10-Sep-2008
Remote technology sees through ice, snow and hot air to monitor power plants
The US Department of Energy is funding the development of technology that will aid in the remote observation of power plants to gauge the actual amount of energy produced. The DOE has awarded Rochester Institute of Technology a total of $1.4 million on two related projects to perfect the detection of observable "signatures" at power plants.
US Department of Energy

Contact: Susan Gawlowicz
smguns@rit.edu
585-475-5061
Rochester Institute of Technology

Public Release: 10-Sep-2008
Physical Review Letters
U-M physicists' analysis leads to discovery of new particle
University of Michigan physicists played a leading role in the discovery of a new particle, the Omega b baryon, which is an exotic relative of the proton. It was detected for the first time in a particle accelerator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, Fermilab has announced.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, others

Contact: Nicole Casal Moore
ncmoore@umich.edu
734-647-1838
University of Michigan

Public Release: 10-Sep-2008
First beam for Large Hadron Collider
An international collaboration of scientists today sent the first beam of protons zooming at nearly the speed of light around the world's most powerful particle accelerator -- the Large Hadron Collider. Beyond revealing a new world of unknown particles, LHC experiments could explain why those particles exist and behave as they do. They could reveal the origins of mass, shed light on dark matter, uncover symmetries of the universe and possibly find extra dimensions of space.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation

Contact: Jeff Sherwood
jeff.sherwood@hq.doe.gov
202-586-4826
DOE/US Department of Energy

Public Release: 9-Sep-2008
Nature Materials
Physicists harness effects of disorder in magnetic sensors
University of Chicago scientists have discovered how to make magnetic sensors capable of operating at the high temperatures that ceramic engines in cars and aircraft of the future will require. The key to fabricating the sensors involves slightly degrading samples of a well-known semiconductor material, called indium antimonide, which is valued for its purity
US Department of Energy

Contact: Steve Koppes
skoppes@uchicago.edu
773-702-8366
University of Chicago

Public Release: 9-Sep-2008
Engineers develop a laser solution to power plants slowed by slagging
The system relies on laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy to provide instant analysis of the elemental composition of coal as it is being burned. LIBS was developed by engineers at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., and at the Energy Research Company in Staten Island, N.Y. Slagging and related problems cost coal-fired power plants an estimated $2.4 billion each year.
US Department of Energy

Contact: Kurt Pfitzer
kap4@lehigh.edu
610-758-3017
Lehigh University

Public Release: 8-Sep-2008
BioScience
Scientists point to forests for carbon storage solutions
Scientists who have determined how much carbon is stored annually in upper Midwest forests hope their findings will be used to accelerate global discussion about the strategy of managing forests to offset greenhouse gas emissions. In an era of competing land use demands, the researchers argue that forests help stabilize the climate and are abundant sources of other ecological goods and services -- such as cleansed air, fertile soil and filtered water.
US Department of Energy, US Department of Agriculture

Contact: Peter Curtis
Curtis.7@osu.edu
614-292-0835
Ohio State University

Public Release: 8-Sep-2008
Iowa State scientists, students contribute to world's biggest science experiment
Iowa State University physicists will be part of the international research team looking on as the first beam of protons races inside the Large Hadron Collider on Wednesday, Sept. 10. Iowa Staters will help oversee American analysis of collider data and study top quark data from the collider.
US Department of Energy

Contact: Jim Cochran
jimc@iastate.edu
515-294-9018
Iowa State University

Public Release: 8-Sep-2008
DOE JGI extends the capabilities of the Integrated Microbial Genome System
The US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute has extended the capabilities of the Integrated Microbial Genomes data management system, updated the content of the IMG/M metagenome data management and analysis system, and has launched its educational companion site, IMG/EDU.
US Department of Energy

Contact: David Gilbert
degilbert@lbl.gov
925-296-5643
DOE/Joint Genome Institute

Public Release: 8-Sep-2008
Soil Science Society of America Journal
US Air Force technology helps scientists understand plant root function
Scientists at the University of California in Davis present results from a newly developed non-invasive technique that uses thermal neutron attenuation to measure spatial and temporal distribution of water in soils. The study, published in the September-October 2008 issue of Soil Science Society of America Journal focuses on the McClellan Nuclear Radiation Center in Sacramento, Calif., developed by the US Air Force.
US Department of Energy

Contact: Sara Uttech
suttech@soils.org
608-268-4948
Soil Science Society of America

Public Release: 8-Sep-2008
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Enzyme detectives uncover new reactions, products
Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a fundamental shift in an enzyme's function that could help expand the toolbox for engineering biofuels and other plant-based oil products.
US Department of Energy, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Contact: Karen McNulty Walsh
kmcnulty@bnl.gov
631-344-8350
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Public Release: 5-Sep-2008
Environmental Science & Technology
Tracking down the menace in Mexico City smog
Chemical scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were part of the multinational MILAGRO team who showed that, bad as the traffic is, the most harmful air pollution in Mexico City may not come from burning fossil fuels. Instead the culprit may be garbage incineration.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, NASA, Mexican Comision Ambiental Metropolitana

Contact: Paul Preuss
paul_preuss@lbl.gov
510-486-6249
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Public Release: 4-Sep-2008
Science
Thumbs up -- a tiny ancestral remnant lends developmental edge to humans
Subtle genetic changes that confer an evolutionary advantage upon a species, such as the dexterity characteristic of the human hand, while difficult to detect and even harder to reproduce, have nevertheless generated keen interest amongst evolutionary biologists. In findings published online Sept. 5 in Science, researchers from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have uncovered a specifically human 13-nucelotide change that yields human limb development patterns in a mouse model system.
NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute

Contact: David Gilbert
degilbert@lbl.gov
925-296-5643
DOE/Joint Genome Institute

Public Release: 4-Sep-2008
Parallel 'nano-soldering' technique chosen for year's top-50 by Nanotech Briefs
A new electroplating process that simultaneously joins many silicon nanowires to many pre-patterned electrodes was selected for a 2008 Nano 50 Award by Nanotech Briefs.
US Department of Energy

Contact: Neal Singer
nsinger@sandia.gov
505-845-7078
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Public Release: 4-Sep-2008
Outpacing climate change with atmospheric research collaboration
Tiny particles in air create smog, seed clouds and control how much of the sun's heat makes it through the atmosphere, and yet are the least understood aspect of climate research. The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of California, San Diego will focus on these particulates with the new Aerosol Chemistry and Climate Institute to better understand how aerosols from pollution, oceans and wildfires contribute to shifting regional weather.

Contact: Mary Beckman
mary.beckman@pnl.gov
509-375-3688
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Public Release: 4-Sep-2008
Science
Yale researchers find 'junk DNA' may have triggered
Out of the 3 billion genetic letters that spell out the human genome, Yale scientists have found a handful that may have contributed to the evolutionary changes in human limbs that enabled us to manipulate tools and walk upright.
National Institutes of Health, US Department of Energy

Contact: Bill Hathaway
william.hathaway@yale.edu
203-432-1322
Yale University

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