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Two timely nutrient data sets provided by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are being used by the beef and pork industries to provide new Nutrition Facts labels for their products.
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Paul Alivisatos, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley’s Larry and Diane Bock Professor of Nanotechnology, has won the prestigious Wolf Foundation Prize in Chemistry for 2012.
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Laboratory Fellows are honored for their achievements in programs of importance to the Laboratory either a fundamental or important discovery that has led to widespread use or and having become a recognized authority in the field.
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The newest of three alternate energy research facilities in the U.S. is slated to debut in fall 2012.
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Similar to the way pavement, softened by a hot sun, will slow down a car, graphene—a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon with wondrous properties—slows down an object sliding across its surface.
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Short Courses offer skill-building and career enhancing training by industry experts; range from half-day up to two-day classes; and include beginner, intermediate, and advanced level curricula.
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In a breakthrough paper published in this week’s issue of Science magazine, Sandia researchers and their partners report direct measurements of reactions of a gas-phase Criegee intermediate using photoionization mass spectrometry.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory says a broad scientific approach to studying rare earth materials needed to ensure continued deployment of clean energy technologies.
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Basic and applied research and energy and environmental research scored significant increases in a 2012 budget bill signed recently by President Obama, but overall R & D spending will decline by 1.3%, according to a new analysis by the AAAS.
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President Obama has named Mildred S. Dresselhaus and Burton Richter as the winners of the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the government’s oldest and most prestigious awards for scientific achievement.
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The state of scientific research at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory reached a new performance milestone in 2011.
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In the super-small world of nanostructures, a team of polymer scientists and engineers have discovered how to make nano-scale repairs to a damaged surface equivalent to spot-filling a scratched car fender rather than re-surfacing the entire part.
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