- Number 327 |
- December 20, 2010
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Atoms of antimatter trapped at CERN in Berkeley's magnetic bottle
Scientists from the DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory made key contributions to the international ALPHA Collaboration at CERN, which in November announced that it had trapped and stored atoms of antimatter for the first time—if only 38 of them (although that number has since increased rapidly), and for less than two seconds each.
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Protein pieces provide path toward early detection of breast cancer
Researchers at DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Texas developed a new technique that may lead to discovering novel circulating biomarkers for early cancer detection. The strategy targets the blood plasma peptidome.
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Researchers gain new perspective in the CAVE
Researchers at the DOE's Idaho National Laboratory and the Center for Advanced Energy Studies are using a new 3-D computer-assisted virtual environment — or CAVE — to literally walk into their data.
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Chasing chameleons
Scientists at DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory report new experimental constraints on a theoretical model that tries to explain the origin of dark energy, the mysterious force that accelerates the expansion of our universe.
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NETL Patents Novel CO2 Separation Concept
Researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory have received a U.S. patent for a novel process to separate CO2 from flue gas. The process couples kinetic rate enhancements of amine-based scrubbing with phase separation of CO2 and chemical regeneration of the amine solution.
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Los Alamos Neutron Science Center gets capacity boost
In early 2011, LANSCE-one of the nation's highest intensity linear proton accelerators-will begin upgrades that will effectively double the facility's capacity for experiments and tests on electronic devices by Laboratory, industrial, and academic users. The Los Alamos Neutron Science Center facility has been used for more than a decade by a virtual Who's Who of the semiconductor industry to simulate the potential failures posed by cosmic-ray-induced neutrons upon miniature electronic devices, such as chips that help control aircraft or complex integrated circuits in automobiles.
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Digital manufacturing model results in DARPA prize
The crushing of 180 digitally manufactured (DM) titanium mesh spheres has culminated in a $50,000 DARPA prize for a University of California at Santa Barbara team, who came up with the most accurate predictive model of the components' properties.
