- Number 316 |
- July 19, 2010
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INL scientist's oil-water separator to help clean up Gulf oil spill
The enormous cleanup effort under way in the Gulf of Mexico is highlighting a frustrating, somewhat paradoxical truth: while oil and water don't mix, they can be awfully hard to separate.
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Unpeeling atoms and molecules from the inside out
The first published scientific results from the world's most powerful hard X-ray laser, located at DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, show its unique ability to control the behaviors of individual electrons within simple atoms and molecules by stripping them away, one by one—in some cases creating hollow atoms.
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DZero tries to beat the odds
According to the Standard Model of particle physics, the collider experiments at DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory should never observe certain types of subatomic processes. But for a dedicated group of experimentalists, the word “never” just raises the stakes. The observation of one of these forbidden processes could open the window to a great discovery and change our understanding of the fundamental laws that govern matter and energy. -
Turning up the heat in Alaska
Scientists at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are planning a large-scale, long-term ecosystem experiment to test the effects of global warming on the icy layers of arctic permafrost.
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Cranking up the voltage in electrostatic accelerators
Electrostatic accelerators have been around for a while in everything from scientific instruments to television sets and inkjet printers.
But none of these have required the electrical voltages or currents demanded by accelerators in present and future plasma and nuclear fusion machines.
