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Public Release: 19-Sep-2008
Nature Biotechnology
Using novel tool, UD researchers dig through cell 'trash' and find treasure
A person's trash can reveal valuable information, as detectives, historians and identity thieves well know. Likewise, a cell's "trash" may yield certain treasures, University of Delaware researchers have found. Using a new technique they developed, scientists at UD's Delaware Biotechnology Institute analyzed the cellular waste of one of the world's most-studied plants and discovered formerly hidden relationships between genes and the small molecules that can turn them off.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation

Contact: Tracey Bryant
tbryant@udel.edu
302-831-8185
University of Delaware

Public Release: 18-Sep-2008
IMPACTS: On the threshold of abrupt climate change
Abrupt climate change is the focus of IMPACTS, a major new program bringing together six US Department of Energy national laboratories to investigate the instability of marine ice sheets, warming of the boreal forests and Arctic, megadroughts in the Southwestern United States, and methane release from frozen hydrates.
US Department of Energy

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

Public Release: 18-Sep-2008
BOSS: The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
A unique dark-energy probe called BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is a crucial component of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's third program. Led by physicists at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, BOSS will use the Sloan 2.5-meter, wide-field telescope in New Mexico to collect and measure more than a million galaxies and quasars.
Sloan Foundation, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation

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

Public Release: 18-Sep-2008
Idaho National Laboratory researchers meet major hydrogen milestone
A team of scientists from the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory earlier this month reached a major milestone with the successful production of hydrogen through High-Temperature Electrolysis. The milestone was reached when the Integrated Laboratory Scale experiment started producing hydrogen at a rate of 5.6 cubic meters per hour. The achievement was announced in Idaho Falls Sept. 18. "This is by far the biggest achievement we've had," said Carl Stoots, the experiment's principal investigator.
US Department of Energy

Contact: Teri Ehresman
Teri.Ehresman@inl.gov
208-520-6252
DOE/Idaho National Laboratory

Public Release: 18-Sep-2008
Science
New process derives 'green gasoline' from plant sugars
Alternative energy doesn't always mean solar or wind power. In fact, the alternative fuels developed by University of Wisconsin-Madison chemical and biological engineering professor James Dumesic look a lot like the gasoline and diesel fuel used in vehicles today.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy

Contact: James Dumesic
dumesic@engr.wisc.edu
608-263-0288
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Public Release: 17-Sep-2008
Sophisticated monitoring array to address mystery of uranium plume
Scientists have puzzled for years about why uranium contamination in groundwater continues to exceed drinking water standards in an area located at the south end of the Hanford Site near Richland, Wash. The Department of Energy wants answers to why the uranium persists. Now, an innovative well-monitoring system has been installed for field experiments to better understand this complex site and to support future clean-up decisions.
US Department of Energy Office of Science, Environmental Remediation Sciences Program, Office of Biological and Environmental Research

Contact: Geoff Harvey
Geoffrey.Harvey@pnl.gov
509-372-6083
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Public Release: 16-Sep-2008
Nature
Improving our ability to peek inside molecules
It's not easy to see a single molecule inside a living cell. Nevertheless, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are helping to develop a new technique that will enable them to create detailed high-resolution images, giving scientists an unprecedented look at the atomic structure of cellular molecules.

Contact: Bob Hirschfeld
newsbob@llnl.gov
925-422-2379
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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

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