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Public Release: 3-Nov-2008
$500,000 award to fight clandestine nuclear activity
As part of a broad international effort to eliminate the testing of nuclear weapons, engineers at The University of Texas at Austin were awarded $511,000 from the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration to research better methods for monitoring and detecting covert nuclear tests.
US Department of Energy

Contact: Steven Biegalski
biegalski@mail.utexas.edu
512-232-5380
University of Texas at Austin

Public Release: 3-Nov-2008
Optics Letters
Solar power game-changer: 'Near perfect' absorption of sunlight, from all angles
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered and demonstrated a new method for overcoming two major hurdles facing solar energy. By developing a new antireflective coating that boosts the amount of sunlight captured by solar panels and allows those panels to absorb the entire solar spectrum from nearly any angle, the research team has moved academia and industry closer to realizing high-efficiency, cost-effective solar power.
US Department of Energy, US Air Force

Contact: Michael Mullaney
mullam@rpi.edu
518-276-6161
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Public Release: 3-Nov-2008
Global Change Biology
Dried mushrooms slow climate warming in northern forests
The fight against climate warming has an unexpected ally in mushrooms growing in dry spruce forests covering Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and other northern regions, a new UC Irvine study finds.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Contact: Jennifer Fitzenberger
jfitzen@uci.edu
949-824-3969
University of California - Irvine

Public Release: 31-Oct-2008
Science
Bare bones of crystal growth: Biomolecules enhance metal contents in calcite
A finding that a hydrophilic peptide significantly enhances the magnesium-content of calcite is especially meaningful for geologists because Mg-content in carbonates is used as a "paleo thermometer." The findings also offer new insights for materials synthesis.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation

Contact: Susan Trulove
STrulove@vt.edu
540-231-5646
Virginia Tech

Public Release: 30-Oct-2008
Science
Ultrafast lasers give CU-Boulder researchers a snapshot of electrons in action
In the quest to slow down and ultimately understand chemistry at the level of atoms and electrons, University of Colorado at Boulder and Canadian scientists have found a new way to peer into a molecule that allows them to see how its electrons rearrange as the molecule changes shape.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation

Contact: Margaret Murnane
margaret.murnane@colorado.edu
303-492-7839
University of Colorado at Boulder

Public Release: 28-Oct-2008
K-State physics lab becoming a frontrunner in ultrafast laser research
The J.R. Macdonald Laboratory at Kansas State University has shifted its research focus to ultrafast laser science. This change in emphasis could lead to innovations benefiting medicine, energy and other technologies.
US Department of Energy

Contact: Itzik Ben-Itzhak
ibi@phys.ksu.edu
785-532-1636
Kansas State University

Public Release: 28-Oct-2008
Ecology Letters
Study helps clarify role of soil microbes in global warming
Current models of global climate change predict warmer temperatures will increase the rate that bacteria and other microbes decompose soil organic matter, a scenario that pumps even more heat-trapping carbon into the atmosphere. But a new study led by a University of Georgia researcher shows that while the rate of decomposition increases for a brief period in response to warmer temperatures, elevated levels of decomposition don't persist.
US Department of Energy

Contact: Sam Fahmy
sfahmy@uga.edu
706-542-5361
University of Georgia

Public Release: 27-Oct-2008
Catching quakes with laptops
Inside your laptop is a small accelerometer chip, there to protect the delicate moving parts of your hard disk from sudden jolts. It turns out that the same chip is a pretty good earthquake sensor, too -- especially if the signals from lots of them are compared, in order to filter out more mundane sources of laptop vibrations, such as typing.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy

Contact: Anne Heavey
anne.heavey@isgtw.org
630-840-8039
International Science Grid

Public Release: 27-Oct-2008
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Sea urchin yields a key secret of biomineralization
The teeth and bones of mammals, the protective shells of mollusks, and the needle-sharp spines of sea urchins and other marine creatures are made-from-scratch wonders of nature.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy

Contact: Pupa Gilbert
pupa@physics.wisc.edu
608-262-5829
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Public Release: 24-Oct-2008
ORNL scientists develop high-performance steel for possible use in ITER fusion project
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the US ITER Project Office, which is housed at ORNL, have developed a new cast stainless steel that is 70 percent stronger than comparable steels and is being evaluated for use in the huge shield modules required by the ITER fusion device.

Contact: Bonnie Hebert
hebertb@ornl.gov
865-574-8381
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Public Release: 23-Oct-2008
Nature
News bits about qubits
Another step towards quantum computing -- the Holy Grail of data processing and storage -- was achieved when an international team of scientists were able to store and retrieve information using the nucleus of an atom. Crucial to the success of this experiment were the exceptionally pure and isotopically controlled silicon crystals produced at Berkeley Lab.
US Department of Energy, US National Security Agency

Contact: Lynn Yarris
lcyarris@lbl.gov
510-486-5375
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Public Release: 23-Oct-2008
US Department of Energy announces $7 million in funding for climate research field studies
The Department of Energy's Office of Science has selected four proposals to conduct climate research field studies in 2010. Together, these field studies in the Azores, Alaska, Colorado and Oklahoma will obtain data from various cloud types -- cirrus, marine and mixed-phase -- to help improve the computer models that simulate climate change. Researchers will gather crucial data on the complex interplay between radiation, clouds and aerosols -- currently one of the main challenges in climate modeling.
US Department of Energy

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

Public Release: 23-Oct-2008
DOE, ORNL helping industry use less energy
Four Oak Ridge National Laboratory technologies to improve energy efficiency in industry have won funding from the Department of Energy's Industrial Technologies Program. The projects, ranging from a heat-free heat treatment for industrial steels to less expensive better welds for large oil and gas pipelines, will bring $7.5 million to ORNL and another $3 million to industry partners.

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

Public Release: 23-Oct-2008
ORNL nanotechnologies big winners in DOE call
Eight Oak Ridge National Laboratory nanomanufacturing technologies have won $8.4 million in funding from the DOE's Industrial Technologies Program. The awards are the result of a peer-reviewed competitive bid process from a DOE nanomanufacturing call.

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

Public Release: 22-Oct-2008
Nature Physics
Case Western Reserve University researcher improves LCDs with 3-D nanoimaging process
Charles Rosenblatt, professor of physics and macromolecular science at Case Western Reserve University, and his research group have developed a method of 3-D optical imaging of anisotropic fluids such liquid crystals, with volumetric resolution one thousand times smaller than existing techniques. A research paper detailing the team's findings appeared in the advanced online publication of Nature Physics.
US Department of Energy, American Chemical Society

Contact: Susan Griffith
susan.griffith@case.edu
216-368-1004
Case Western Reserve University

Public Release: 22-Oct-2008
Nature
Memoirs of a qubit: Hybrid memory solves key problem for quantum computing
An international team of scientists has performed the ultimate miniaturization of computer memory: storing information inside the nucleus of an atom. This breakthrough is a key step in bringing to life a quantum computer -- a device based on the fundamental theory of quantum mechanics which could crack problems unsolvable by current technology.
US National Security Agency, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, US Department of Energy

Contact: Steven Schultz
sschultz@princeton.edu
609-258-3617
Princeton University, Engineering School

Public Release: 22-Oct-2008
British scientists go cloud-hopping in the Pacific to improve climate predictions
A 20-strong -team of cloud and climate experts from the UK's National Center for Atmospheric Science will today set off for Chile to investigate how massive swathes of clouds that hang over the Pacific are affecting climate and weather all round the world, including the UK. This new £3M project aims to reduce some of the largest errors currently in our climate models and thus greatly improve predictions of future climate change.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, Office of Naval Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Center for Atmospheric Science, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Met Office

Contact: Dr. Louisa Watts
NCAScomms@nerc.ac.uk
44-077-862-14886
The National Centre for Atmospheric Science

Public Release: 21-Oct-2008
Science
Secret lives of catalysts revealed
The first-ever glimpse of nanoscale catalysts in action could lead to improved pollution control and fuel cell technologies. Berkeley Lab scientists have observed catalysts restructuring themselves in response to various gases swirling around them, like a chameleon changing its color to match its surroundings.
US Department of Energy

Contact: Dan Krotz
dakrotz@lbl.gov
510-486-4019
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Public Release: 21-Oct-2008
Northwest climate change is target of $3.2M in grants to University of Oregon
Climate change in the Northwest is the focus of two federal grants totaling $3.2 million awarded to two University of Oregon researchers. They will work together on a pair of multi-site projects designed to help enhance biodiversity while protecting people and property from wildfires in the face of a changing climate.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy

Contact: Jim Barlow
jebarlow@uoregon.edu
541-346-3481
University of Oregon

Public Release: 20-Oct-2008
Sandia, SES win Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Innovator Award
Chuck Andraka, Sandia National Laboratories engineer, and Bruce Osborn, chief operating officer of Stirling Energy Systems, were honored with a Popular Mechanics magazine Breakthrough Innovator Award Oct. 15 during a ceremony at the Hearst Tower in New York City.
Stirling Energy Systems

Contact: Christine Burroughs
coburro@sandia.gov
505-844-0948
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Public Release: 20-Oct-2008
Sandia aids cleanup of Iraqi nuclear facilities, rad waste
Sandia scientists are helping train Iraqi scientists and technicians to clean up radioactively contaminated sites and safely dispose of the radioactive wastes as part of the Iraqi Nuclear Facility Dismantlement and Disposal Program.
US Department of State

Contact: Michael Padilla
mjpadil@sandia.gov
505-284-5325
DOE/Sandia National Laboratories

Public Release: 20-Oct-2008
Nature Materials
Engineering nanoparticles for maximum strength
Individual nanocrystals are remarkably strong. But under stress, complex nanostructures often fail because of large internal strains. Research on hollow nanospheres at the National Center for Electron Microscopy shows that engineering can greatly increase the strength of complex nanoparticles, with potential for stronger nanostructures and large-scale alloys as well.
US Department of Energy

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

Public Release: 17-Oct-2008
Fuel Cells Science & Technology 2008
PNNL researcher receives international fuel cell award
Fuel cell pioneer Subhash Singhal, fuel cell director at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has received the 2008 Grove Medal for sustained advances in fuel cell technology.
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Contact: Judith Graybeal
graybeal@pnl.gov
509-375-4351
DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Public Release: 16-Oct-2008
Science Express
NASA's Fermi telescope discovers first gamma-ray-only pulsar
About three times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. Discovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the object, called a pulsar, is the first one known that only "blinks" in gamma rays.
NASA, US Department of Energy

Contact: Frank Reddy
Francis.J.Reddy@nasa.gov
301-286-4453
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Public Release: 16-Oct-2008
Science Express
First gamma-ray-only pulsar observation opens new window on stellar evolution
About three times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. This object, known as a pulsar, is the first one known to "blink" only in gamma rays, and was discovered by the Large Area Telescope onboard NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, a collaboration with the US Department of Energy and international partners.
US Department of Energy, NASA

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

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