- Number 292 |
- August 4, 2009
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Terrestrial CO2 economically important in greenhouse gas control
Limiting greenhouse gas concentrations to low levels requires the development of policies to address land-use change emissions as well as fossil fuel emissions, notes a recent study by the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Maryland. -
A new technology to diagnose prostate cancer
DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Toronto-based Hybridyne Imaging Technologies, Inc., have developed a compact gamma camera for high-resolution imaging of prostate cancer. The camera system, which won a 2009 R&D 100 Award, is a nuclear medical instrument that can localize cancer tissue in the prostate gland in detail at an early stage, which is important for the successful diagnosis of the potentially deadly disease.
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SNS gets a new target
Having outlasted all predictions of when it would wear out, the original target module for the Spallation Neutron Source at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory was finally changed in July. -
Proton identity theft
By slapping a proton with an energetic electron, experimenters can change the proton into a completely new particle. Theory predicts a wide range of particles that can be produced this way; but while some of these new particles, called “excited states of the proton,” have been measured, many are still unseen.
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Virtual engineering for next-generation power plants
Engineers designing tomorrow’s high-efficiency, low-emission power plants can now review and revise proposed designs more quickly, more efficiently and at less cost than ever before thanks to a virtual engineering software developed by two Ames Laboratory scientists. -
Cyber defense system links labs
DOE laboratories fight off millions of cyber attacks every year, but a near real-time dialog between these labs about this hostile activity has never existed—until now. Scientists at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory devised a program that allows for cyber security defense systems to communicate when attacked and transmit that information to cyber systems at other institutions in the hopes of strengthening the overall cyber security posture of the complex.
