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Helping hydrogen along

Researchers have pursued clean hydrogen-based fuels for years. A Berkeley Lab team hopes to spur that quest with help from… Read More

October, 2011

Designer yeast

A Johns Hopkins University team has built a yeast chromosome from scratch, they report today in the journal Nature. Sarah… Read More

September, 2011

A long view of Gulf oil spill

While others predicted when oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico might reach beaches, ocean modelers… Read More

April, 2011

Breaking the biomass barrier

What Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers are learning could help make ethanol from cellulose a viable fuel alternative – and… Read More

December, 2009

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… Read More

December, 2009

The big face off

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers say their algorithms can analyze millions of video frames, pluck out the faces and quantify… Read More

December, 2009