Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy's Bioenergy Research Center does everything from chemical and biochemical analyses to bioengineering to process scale-up to microbial strain development.
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On December 2, Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman and Congressman Jerry McNerney, along with representatives from the offices of Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, officially dedicated the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI).
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San Diego philanthropist John J. Moores has contributed $2.1 million to The Scripps Research Institute's new $50 million initiative to recruit world-class researchers and sustain and expand current research efforts at the La Jolla, CA- and Palm Beach County, FL-based biomedical organization.
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A teaspoon of dirt contains an estimated 10,000 species of bacteria, but its only one percent of these microbial bugs that have brought us antibiotics, anticancer agents and other useful drugs.
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Ohios academic and industrial researchers now can share some of the states most valuable and expensive scientific instruments via the Internet, thanks to cyberinfrastructure tools developed by engineers and researchers at the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
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Seventy six American Nobel Laureates in science have endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States.
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According to their "About the Project" page, www.sciencemoms.wordpress.com began as a single post to a list serve with an excerpt and link to a New York Times article about the . It quickly became a forum for discussion of the difficulties (and joys)
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I recently came across a web site in which McCain and Obama answer the top 14 science questions facing America – sharing their views on issues of environment, health and medicine, and science and technology policy. It's worth checking out. http://
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Having studied the physiology of algae for more than 30 years, University of Washington's Rose Ann Cattolico is convinced the plant life found in oceans and ponds can be a major source of environmentally friendly fuels for everything from cars and lawn mowers to jet airplanes.
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An international team of researchers led by Monash University has used chemicals found in plants to replicate a key process in photosynthesis paving the way to a new approach that uses sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tenn. has signed an $89 million energy savings performance contract with Johnson Controls, Inc. to apply advanced energy conservation solutions, including a biomass gasification system, to the campus.
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In the dreams of Harry Gray, Beckman Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, the future energy needs of the world are met with solar-fuel power plants. Now, a $20 million award from the Chemical Bonding Center (CBC), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry program, will help bring this dream one step closer to reality.
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