Putting catalysts on track
Computation and experimentation combine to improve and speed design of useful compounds.
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Breaking the biomass barrier
What Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are learning could help make ethanol from cellulose a viable fuel alternative – and help the United States replace foreign oil with a green, renewable resource.
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Extending the stockpile’s lifespan
Just how does prolonged exposure to nuclear radiation change a material’s properties? How do those changes alter the way a weapon performs? A Los Alamos team quantifies these and other uncertainties.
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Program may mean cutting the tags
Image searches typically rely on tags – text humans have attached to the pictures to identify objects or people they
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The big face off
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers say their algorithms can analyze millions of video frames, pluck out the faces and quantify them to create searchable databases for facial identification.
Invoking pharaoh’s name
The U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal must withstand attack and successfully strike their targets. Sandia scientists must figure out how.
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Nanostructural problem-solvers
Computation ferrets out emergent behaviors of novel materials built from tiny blocks.
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