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Scientists Get Real-Time Look Inside Spacecraft Heat Shields During Extreme Heat Conditions

Through a decade-long partnership between the ALS and NASA, researchers are studying how heat shield materials called superlight ablators degrade, informing NASA spacecraft design. Research at the ALS ...
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Targeted Cancer Therapy Gets a Sharper Focus

Targeted alpha therapy (TAT) is an emerging cancer treatment that uses alpha-emitting radioisotopes to target and destroy cancer cells without damaging nearby healthy cells. The radioisotope ...
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Elevated Indoor Carbon Dioxide Impairs Decision-Making Performance

Overturning decades of conventional wisdom, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have found that moderately high indoor concentrations of ...
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How a Machine Learning Pipeline Could Accelerate Innovation

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is working to transform petabytes of imaging data from advanced light and neutron scattering user facilities in the U.S. into actionable knowledge, ...
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Big Oil abandoned this California town 10 years ago. Now, it has a new plan to save it ...
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AI is driving up electricity bills in New Jersey. Here’s why and some suggestions on how to fix it. < 1 … 8 9 10 11 12 … 113 > ...
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Pushing the Boundaries of Moore’s Law: How Can Extreme UV Light Produce Tiny Microchips?

Advances in microelectronics – also known as microchips or chips – have enabled fast, powerful, compact smartphones and laptops – electronic devices that were once, long ago, the stuff of science ...
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Sweet Success: Researchers Crack Sugarcane’s Complex Genetic Code

Until now, sugarcane’s complicated genetics made it the last major crop without a complete and highly accurate genome. Researchers combined multiple techniques to successfully map out sugarcane’s DNA ...
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Copper Catalyst Yields High Efficiency CO2-to-Fuels Conversion

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new electrocatalyst that can directly convert carbon dioxide into multicarbon fuels and ...
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How Researchers Are Driving Advances for Data Centers

Today’s technologies depend increasingly on computers and artificial intelligence — largely powered by data centers, which have become essential U.S. infrastructure. Over the past two decades, data ...
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Alvarez Theory on Dinosaur Die-Out Upheld: Experts Find Asteroid Guilty of Killing the Dinosaurs

In the March 5, 2010 edition of the journal Science, an international panel of 41 experts in geology, paleontology and other related fields, after an exhaustive review of the data, declared an end to ...