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The Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory dedicated its new scanning probing microscopy building recently during its annual users conference.
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Members of the Solar Technology Acceleration Center (SolarTAC) and supporters convened in Aurora, Colo., today, to mark a milestone in "Powering Up" one of the world's largest solar test and demonstration facilities. Since announcing the initial launch of SolarTAC one year ago...
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A group of researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology has developed a handheld camera that uses microwave signals to non-destructively peek inside materials and structures in real time.
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Harvard Univ. has acknowledged that it lost about $1.8 billion in investments over the past year, along with an $11 billion decline in the value of its endowments, and another $500 million in losses realized in connection with their interest rate exchange agreements, according to Harvard's recently published annual report and an interview by the Harvard Gazette with Jim Rothenberg, Harvard's treasurer.
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A new program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Dept. of Energy will examine cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient computing paradigm for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines, including analysis of scientific data sets in biology, climate change and physics.
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The federal government has released $47 million toward a long-planned plutonium research lab at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a project Los Alamos officials say is vital, but which nuclear watchdogs contend only positions the U.S. to build more nuclear weapons.
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The NSF and the Consortium for Ocean Leadership (COL) have signed a Cooperative Agreement that supports the construction and initial operation of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). OOI will provide a network of undersea sensors for observing complex ocean processes such as...
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On Oct. 7, 2009 at the National Medal of Science ceremony, President Barack Obama announced he would raise R&Ds spending as a percent of gross domestic product to 3%. The current R&D spending as a share of GDP is 2.62%.
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University of Washington leaders on Friday officially broke ground on a molecular engineering building.
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As part of a project to create alternative sources of energy, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are cultivating green algae that holds promise as a new supply of biofuel.
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NASA will continue to count on ManTech International engineering support, awarding the company a $23.3 million, five-year contact for engineering support services at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Governor Phil Bredesen's announcement of a $62.5 million economic stimulus grant for solar research further solidifies Tennessee's position ranking as a top-tier green energy state.
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