Sentences with phrase «national laboratory led»

Reporting in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a team of researchers in the Institute for Integrated Catalysis at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory led by chemist Janos Szanyi showed that the artificial catalyst works much the same way that similar bacterial enzymes do: by coming at the target from the side rather than head on.

Los Alamos National Laboratory leads the U.S. and French team that jointly developed and operates ChemCam.

Project partners include Pacific Northwest National Laboratory leading the high - temperature electrolysis pathway, Caltech leading the PEC pathway, and Arizona State University leading the STCH pathway.

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The author of The Fusion Quest, Fowler has worked and directed high - level projects at leading U.S. laboratories, including the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore fusion lab (which now houses NIF); in addition, he was the American representative for ITER.

General Fusion has also received funding from the Canadian government's Sustainable Development Technology fund (SDTC) and Cenovus Energy, in addition to scoring a research partnership with one of the U.S.'s leading scientific centres, the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

In 1999, a team led by Geoffrey West from Los Alamos National Laboratory suggested the reason for this law lies in fractals — mathematical, self - replicating patterns such as the one shown above.

A breakthrough in enzyme research led by the United States Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the United Kingdom's University of Portsmouth has led to an improved variant

The CEO of the National Petroleum Authority, NPA, Moses Asaga gave the hint when he led a delegation to commission a modern computer laboratory for the Kongo Senior High School in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region.

The new concept was developed by a team led by W.M. Keck Professor of Energy Yang Shao - Horn, graduate student Sokseiha Muy, recent graduate John Bachman PhD» 17, and Research Scientist Livia Giordano, along with nine others at MIT, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and institutions in Tokyo and Munich.

She leads a research laboratory that is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to study risk factors for psychosis and other serious mental illnesses.

«Our research shows for the first time that classical systems such as artificial spin ice can be designed to demonstrate topological ordered phases, which previously have been found only in quantum conditions,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Cristiano Nisoli, leader of the theoretical group that collaborated with an experimental group at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, led by Peter Schiffer (now at Yale University).

«The concentration of silica is very high at the centerlines of these halos,» said Jens Frydenvang, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Copenhagen and lead author of the paper.

What's more, an independent team, led by Saul Perlmutter at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, had arrived at the same result.

Holt and Rakoff noted that many other recommendations for improving forensic techniques that the National Academy of Sciences outlined have been adopted by state and local crime labs and led to the implementation of codes of professional conduct governing forensic laboratories and other practices.

An international team led by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a new technique for identifying gene enhancers — sequences of DNA that act to amplify the expression of a specific gene — in the genomes of humans and other mammals.

They were led by Chris Wehrenberg, a physicist at the DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and described in a recent paper in Nature.

Using the huge laser power of the US National Ignition Facility, a team led by Brian MacGowan of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have managed to squeeze fuel into spheres for the first time.

A new, highly permeable carbon capture membrane developed by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could lead to more efficient ways of separating carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.

If we ever did need to destroy an asteroid on short notice, a 2009 study led by David Dearborn of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California reassuringly showed that a 900 - kiloton nuclear device — which is within our capability — would permanently disperse a 1 - kilometre asteroid.

«Along the rover's path we have seen some beautiful rocks with large, bright crystals, quite unexpected on Mars» said Roger Wiens of Los Alamos National Laboratory, lead scientist on the ChemCam instrument.

Other scientists, led by Thomas Knutson, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, looked at 2012's hot spring temperatures over the eastern United States and also found that human influences contributed about 35 percent to late spring heat that year.

Dr Joseph Hodges, from the National Institute of Science and Technology in Gaithersberg, USA who led the team measuring the spectrum of CO2 in the laboratory, said: «These measurements are very challenging so we could only make precise lab measurements at a few wavelengths.

In 1998 two groups — one led by Saul Perlmutter of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the other by Brian Schmidt of Australian National University — reported that they had succeeded in measuring how the expansion has changed over time.

A scientific team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has found a new way to take the local temperature of a material from an area about a billionth of a meter wide, or approximately 100,000 times thinner than a human hair.

«Cutting back only on soot and methane emissions will help the climate, but not as much as previously thought,» said the study's lead author, climate researcher Steve Smith of the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

From the start, I was responsible for a laboratory that ran a number of different analytical systems, had to train students in environmental measurement, and came to lead and work in a number of national and international projects.

It is the right thing to do at this time, says Paul Alivisatos, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, the lead author of the proposals.

We were very surprised based on the fact that previous models people used for planet formation suggested a much higher critical shock pressure,» says Richard Kraus, now a scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and lead author on the paper published in March in Nature Geoscience.

It may not seem like a material as thin as an atom could hide any surprises, but a research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) discovered an unexpected magnetic property in a two - dimensional material.

This led a group of researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to explore the question: Do irradiation and vitrification have the same impact on the atomic structure of materials?

- The Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P), a multidisciplinary consortium of leading universities, national laboratories, and nonprofit research organizations addressing cybersecurity challenges.

Neutron scattering at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) helped a multi-institutional team led by Tulane University investigate a graphene - like strontium - manganese - antimony material (Sr1 - yMn1 - zSb2) that hosts what researchers suspect is a Weyl semimetal phase.

A team led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that the type of plant inputs (that is, root or needle litter) affected total carbon and nitrogen retention over 10 years, but that soil horizon (essentially, the layer of soil, such as the topsoil organic or deeper mineral layers) affected how the litter - derived soil organic material is stabilized in the long term.

The new atom counter, named Atom Trap Trace Analysis, or ATTA, was developed by a team of nuclear physicists led by Zheng - Tian Lu at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago.

«In summer when people are thinking about 4th of July fireworks and barbeques, long before the first snow has fallen, our experimental prediction system tells us what the following March will be like,» said Sarah Kapnick, a physical scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory who led the research that appears online today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

This could lead to new HIV vaccine strategies that are able to stimulate the rare precursors of these protective antibodies,» says Professor Lynn Morris, from the National Health Laboratory Service in the Wits School of Pathology who leads the research team at the NICD.

Physicists had to design computer simulations, tested against those mid-century analyses, to «predict what would happen if a weapon went off,» says Greg Spriggs, a nuclear weapon physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who is leading the project to scan and declassify the films.

«The Argo data is really critical,» said Paul Durack, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher who led the new study, which was published in Climate Nature Change.

The team, led by Fenning, includes researchers from the AMOLF Institute in the Netherlands and Argonne National Laboratory.

According to a new study led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and at the University of California, Berkeley, electrons in vanadium dioxide can conduct electricity without conducting heat.

The study was performed mainly at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and was led by postdoctoral researcher Junfeng He and graduate student Thomas Mion, researchers in the lab of BC Assistant Professor of Physics Rui - Hua He, a lead author of the paper.

The research, led by Daniel Giammar, the Walter E. Browne Professor of Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, was conducted in collaboration with researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Philip Skemer, associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University.

The X-ray Reflection Interfacial Microscope, a new surface microscope at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Argonne National Laboratory, has led to a major breakthrough.

One group, led by Xiang Zhang of the University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, created a «hyperlens» that bends light in a way no ordinary material can.

A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has identified a novel microbial process that can break down toxic methylmercury in the environment, a fundamental scientific discovery that could potentially reduce mercury toxicity levels and support health and risk assessments.

The lead author of the study is Brian Glancy, Ph.D., an investigator with the Muscle Energetics Laboratory of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), which is part of NIH.

Now, a team of physicists led by Efim Gluskin of Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois has pushed its x-ray laser to «saturation,» at which the amplification of light intensity hits its theoretical maximum.

To better understand how galactic wind affects star formation in galaxies, a two - person team led by the University of California, Santa Cruz, turned to high - performance computing at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).

Now, a team led by physicist Yimei Zhu at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has produced definitive evidence that the movement of electrons has a direct effect on atomic arrangements, driving deformations in a material's 3D crystalline lattice in ways that can drastically alter the flow of current.

A study led by researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found for the first time that thirdhand smoke — the noxious residue that clings to virtually all surfaces long after the secondhand smoke from a cigarette has cleared out — causes significant genetic damage in human cells.