Sentences with phrase «energy as the lab»

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Still, Nest Labs must make sure that the company doesn't push customers too hard who don't care to use the devices as energy - savings tools, she explained.

He had recently removed himself from his last start - up, an ambitious alternative - energy company known as Makani Power, and he had only just turned on the lights at his newest company, Other Lab.

Though calculations of the environmental impact of Dr Post's lab - grown meat have yet to be published, early indications suggest that cultured meat could reduce the need for land and water by as much as 90 % and overall energy use by up to 70 %.

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Cenovus Energy -LRB--1 %) was eliminated as discussed last quarter, and Actavis (+2 %) had a negative impact given we had a small short position as a hedge against our shares in Forest Labs that were short - term, as discussed in the March 2014 letter.

With as much caffeine as coffee and a rich profile of polyphenols, flavonoids, and l - theanine, guayusa tea offers energy «from a leaf, not a lab.»

«The SUNY Poly Zen Building was designed by EYP to fulfill the vision of SUNY Poly for a living research lab to study the real - world effectiveness of materials, systems and building performance as it relates to highly energy - efficient buildings,» she wrote.

She has spent decades studying the crystalline structures of biological materials such as seashell minerals at the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. Growing frustration with government shutdowns, a huge disruption to national labs like Brookhaven, partly spurred her candidacy.

Having their fresh eyes and energy in the lab served as a further reminder that I had chosen an interesting and exciting career.

Our source for this statistic is Dana Christensen, an associate lab director for energy and engineering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as well as 1978 paper in Science authored by J. P. McBride and colleagues, also of ORNL.

«The results from BOSS provide a solid foundation for even more precise future BAO measurements, such as those we expect from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI),» says Natalie Roe, Physics Division director at Berkeley Lab.

Elena Berger, 2011 - 12 Fellow in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Office of International Affairs, said, «The tour allowed me to better appreciate the significance of NREL as a lab that operates throughout the whole innovation cycle, from basic R&D to commercialization.»

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.

A biochemistry major, Gazzaley had planned to put a chunk of sodium metal into a lake behind campus to make it fizz — a large - scale version of the classic junior high school lab experiment in which adding a pinch of potassium to water creates a spark as the chemical reaction releases energy.

An X-ray microscopy technique recently developed at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has given scientists the ability to image nanoscale changes inside lithium - ion battery particles as they charge and discharge.

Chemist John Pojman of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge adds that such roving droplets «might be useful as a pumping mechanism for microfluidics, converting chemical energy to mechanical motion in small devices,» such as the microfluidic labs - on - a-chip many researchers are developing as diagnostic machines.

«I see it as a best level effort, and hopefully with continued movement in the right direction, we'll be able to get there,» says Jeffery Greenblatt, a greenhouse gas policy analyst in the lab's Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division.

As administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration and undersecretary for nuclear security at the Department of Energy, D'Agostino oversees the nation's three weapons labs — Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia.

Chu saw the hubs as miniature Bell Labs in which top scientists from many different disciplines could work together to overcome specific energy - related challenges.

«This is something that I feel quite passionate about,» said Chu, speaking about plans for the Energy Innovation Hubs, which he described as little Bell Labs.

The research, from scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is presented as the cover story in the May special issue of Physics of Plasmas.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have shown for the first time that dark fiber — the vast network of unused fiber - optic cables installed throughout the country and the world — can be used as sensors for detecting earthquakes, the presence of groundwater, changes in permafrost conditions, and a variety of other subsurface activity.

So say researchers at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which alongside Seattle - based Bio Architecture Lab (BAL) has secured $ 9 million from the Department of Energy to explore seaweed's potential as a feedstock for biobutanol, an advanced biofuel.

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have identified the microenvironment surrounding microvasculature — the small blood vessels that transport blood within tissues — as a niche where dormant cancer cells reside.

Now a research team at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has identified all of the principal oil - degrading bacteria as well as their mechanisms for chewing up the many different components that make up the released crude oil.

As part of an international research team, Jeff Donatelli, Peter Zwart and Kanupriya Pande of the Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) contributed key algorithms which helped achieve a goal first proposed more than 40 years ago — using angular correlations of X-ray snapshots from non-crystalline molecules to determine the 3D structure of important biological objects.

The multi-institutional team known as the JET Collaboration, led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab), published their results in a recent issue of Physical Review C.

Yaghi, who invented MOFs in the early 1990s while at the Arizona State University, is now a faculty scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and the University of California (UC) Berkeley Chemistry Department, where he also serves as co-director of the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute (Kavli - ENSI).

«This measurement is allowing us to use the early universe as a lab for new physics in energy ranges that are otherwise inaccessible to us,» Kamionkowski says.

Feng Wang, a condensed matter physicist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley's Physics Department, as well as an investigator for the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at Berkeley, led a study in which photo - induced doping of GBN heterostructures was used to create p - n junctions and other useful doping profiles while preserving the material's remarkably high electron mobility.

Raydiance's USP laser system has three times as much energy per pulse as his lab's titanium - sapphire laser, which takes up 10 - square feet (0.9 square meter).

«These «fastener» proteins do not consume energy, yet they somehow maintain their positions on the filaments, known as microtubules, in spite of all the activity going on,» says Scott Forth, a postdoc in the lab who led the research.

JCAP was one of five energy innovation hubs that Chu envisioned as miniature versions of the storied Bell Labs.

So this research has set out «to analyse the capacity new materials have to absorb solar energy as well as to seek appropriate strategies to move from the lab to actual operations,» pointed out Ikerne Etxebarria, a researcher of the UPV / EHU and IK4 - Ikerlan.

Cancer cells are well - known as voracious energy consumers, but even veteran cancer - metabolism researcher Deepak Nagrath was surprised by their latest exploit: Experiments in his lab at Rice University show that some cancer cells get 30 - 60 percent of their fuel from eating their neighbors» «words.»

Natural and Cultural Resources Manager Tim Green talks about the history At the same location where soldiers passed through for two world wars and Irving Berlin wrote «God Bless America,» staff at Brookhaven Lab lead and collaborate with some of the world's brightest minds as an asset for innovation and inspiration with seven Nobel Prize - winning discoveries and countless other advances, supporting the U.S. Department of Energy's mission to discover the solutions that power and secure our nation's future.

Brookhaven Science Associates and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Brookhaven Site Office are working together with Lab management and staff to ensure that Brookhaven is known as a lab that fosters a safe working environment, and is known for its operational excellenLab management and staff to ensure that Brookhaven is known as a lab that fosters a safe working environment, and is known for its operational excellenlab that fosters a safe working environment, and is known for its operational excellence.

The research, funded in part by the US Department of Energy through the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy and by the National Science Foundation, included members of Haile's lab team at Northwestern as well as scientists from the University of Maryland and the California Institute of Technology.

Feng Wang, a condensed matter physicist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley's Physics Department, as well as an investigator for the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute at Berkeley, led a study in which photo - induced doping of GBN heterostructures was used to create p — n junctions and other useful doping profiles while preserving the material's remarkably high electron mobility.

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have uncovered new clues about the risk of cancer from low - dose radiation, which in this research they define as equivalent to 100 millisieverts or roughly the dose received from ten full - body CT scans.

Building on methods they used to assess the impact of hurricanes such as Katrina, Gustav, and Rita on forests and tree mortality, scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have produced a rapid mapping of the disturbance intensity across Puerto Rico's forests with the help of Google Earth Engine.

«The driving idea behind the research is knowing that AMPK serves as a sensor for low energy loss in cells and that LKB1 - deficient cells lack the ability to activate AMPK and sense energy loss,» says David Shackelford, a postdoctoral researcher at Salk who spearheaded the study in Shaw's lab and is now an assistant professor at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are working to understand — and manipulate — plant photoprotection mechanisms, such as a process called NPQ, or nonphotochemical quenching, which helps dissipate excess light energy inside chloropEnergy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are working to understand — and manipulate — plant photoprotection mechanisms, such as a process called NPQ, or nonphotochemical quenching, which helps dissipate excess light energy inside chloropenergy inside chloroplasts.

The latest study, which featured experiments at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), could help explain the presence of pyrene, which is a chemical compound known as a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, and similar compounds in some meteorites.

Berkeley Lab has been studying Puerto Rico's forests for several years as part of the Department of Energy's Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments - Tropics (NGEE - Tropics) initiative, a multi-institutional project launched in 2015 and led by Berkeley Lab.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are contributing key components for the project, known as LCLS - II, that will greatly increase the power and capacity of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), a free - electron X-ray laser at the DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif..

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have discovered that as plants develop they craft their root microbiome, favoring microbes that consume very specific metabolites.

New data from existing experiments, and next - generation sky surveys such as the Berkeley Lab - led Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) now under construction at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona should provide even more detailed data about these filaments, he added.

SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES As the Associate Labs Director for Division 8000, Integrated Security Solutions, at Sandia National Laboratories, Ellis provides leadership and management direction for Sandia's California Laboratory; the New Mexico Energy and Geosciences Center in Albuquerque; and other remote sites in Alaska, Texas, and Carlsbad, NM.

Vay is leading a particle accelerator modeling project as part of the NESAP program at Berkeley Lab's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and is the principal investigator on one of the newexascale computing projects sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).