- Number 296 |
- September 28, 2009
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What's up with those ice clouds?
Constant air travel can do more than wear on your nerves, it can also create more thin, wispy ice clouds that contribute to climate change, according to a study by DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of California, and University of Michigan. The team found that soot and metallic particles can serve as sources for making ice crystals, which give rise to cirrus clouds. -
Space nuclear research informs advanced reactor work
Deflecting comets that threaten earth, maneuvering satellites and developing super lunar light bulbs are among projects students tackled this summer at the Center for Space Nuclear Research at DOE's Idaho National Laboratory. As part of the center's Summer Fellowship Program, 15 top students from different fields and universities around the country participated in cutting-edge space nuclear power and propulsion research. -
SRNL, automakers to develop high-performance wireless sensors networks
Several industries use wireless sensors, which can monitor chemical processes or equipment activity and then transmit the data over a wireless network. Still, many facilities that could benefit from the use of wireless sensors must continue to use a wired network instead, because the reliability, speed and security of the current generation of wireless sensors do not meet their needs.
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American-made SRF cavity makes the grade
DOE's Jefferson Lab marked a step forward in the field of advanced particle accelerator technology with the successful test of the first U.S.-built superconducting radiofrequency (SRF) niobium cavity to meet the exacting specifications of the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC).
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Ti nanoparticles target brain cancer cells
Scientists from the DOE's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago's Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using inorganic titanium dioxide nanoparticles bonded to soft biological material.
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Crystal Growth in Space
A research project 10 years in the making is now orbiting the Earth, much to the delight of its creator Rohit Trivedi, a senior metallurgist at DOE’s Ames Laboratory. Equipment recently delivered to the International Space Station by the Space Shuttle Discovery will allow the Earth-bound Trivedi to conduct crystal growth experiments.
