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Nevada Terawatt Facility makes important advancement in unraveling mysteries of fusion energy
10-25-2006 · EurekAlert!Through work at the University of Nevada, Reno's Nevada Terawatt Facility, researchers find microscopic effects that cause inefficiencies limiting the conversion of electrical energy required for implosion energy.
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- Make way for the real nanopod
10-31-2007 · EurekAlert!
Make way for the real nanopod and make room in the Guinness World Records. A team of researchers with the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have created the first fully-functional radio from a single carbon nanotube, which makes it by several orders of magnitude the smallest radio ever made.
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- UNC scientists solve mystery of how largest cellular motor protein powers movement
11-27-2006 · EurekAlert!
Scientists now understand how an important protein converts chemical energy to mechanical force, thus powering the process of cell division, thanks to a new structural model by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers.
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- South Pole Telescope achieves first light
02-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
Scientists aimed the South Pole Telescope at Jupiter on the evening of Feb. 16 and successfully collected the instrument's first test observations. Soon, far more distant quarry will fall under the SPT's sights as a team from nine institutions tackles one of the biggest mysteries of modern cosmological research. That mystery: What is dark energy, the force that dominates the universe?
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- Carnegie Mellon scientists find key HIV protein makes cell membranes bend more easily
07-25-2007 · EurekAlert!
Carnegie Mellon University scientists have made an important discovery that helps to explain why HIV enters immune cells with ease. They found that after HIV docks onto a host cell, it dramatically lowers the energy required for a cell membrane to bend, making it easier for the virus to infect immune cells. The finding will provide vital data to conduct future computer simulations of HIV dynamics to help further drug discovery and prevent deadly infections.
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- Department of Energy Advances NSLS-II Project
07-17-2007 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
The Department of Energy (DOE) has granted "Critical Decision 1" (CD-1) status to the National Synchrotron Light Source-II (NSLS-II). This decision, which assures the facility's location at DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory, is a major step forward in the long process to make this state-of-the-art research complex a reality. The world leading capabilities of NSLS-II will enable exploration of the scientific challenges faced in developing new materials with advanced properties.
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- UVa-led team uncovers important secret in gene replication
06-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
A team of researchers led by University of Virginia Health System geneticists has uncovered a major secret in the mystery of how the DNA helix replicates itself time after time. It turns out that it is not just the sequence of the bases -- building blocks -- in the DNA, but also how loosely or tightly the chromatin -- the material that makes up chromosomes -- is packed at different points of the chromosome that is critical.
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- Scientists find missing link to understand how plants make vitamin C
04-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
Vitamin C is possibly the most important small molecule whose biosynthetic pathway remained a mystery. That is until now. A group of Dartmouth and UCLA researchers, who normally work on genes involved in aging and cancer in animals, discovered the last piece of the puzzle, they report in a study published online April 26 in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
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- Breaking the Barrier Toward Nanometer X-ray Resolution
09-28-2007 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
A team of researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have overcome a major obstacle for using refractive lenses to focus x-rays. This method will allow the efficient focusing of x-rays down to extremely small spots and is an important breakthrough in the development of a new, world-leading light source facility that promises advances in nanoscience, energy, biology, and materials research.
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- Pimp my meatballs -- Collagen injections safeguard nutrients
04-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
Injecting meatballs with collagen can help the meat to retain the important nutrients iodine and thiamine. Collagen fiber or collagen hydrolysate saturated with potassium iodide makes the nutrients more stable than potassium iodide introduced using iodized table salt. Thiamine (vitamin B1) helps the body’s cells to convert carbohydrates into energy. It is found in many foods, like lean meats, but especially pork. Insufficient amounts of thiamine can lead to nerve damage, weakness, fatigue and psychosis.
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- New Delft material concept for aircraft wings could save billions
09-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
Building aircraft wings with a special aluminium fiber combination makes them nearly immune to metal fatigue. The application of this technology, partly developed at Delft University of Technology, will lead to substantial savings. The unusual qualities of this special material can make a significant contribution to the development of truly energy-efficient, 'green' aircraft. Lower fuel consumption and reduction of maintenance costs could lead to worldwide savings as high as $100 billion.
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