Sentences with phrase «national laboratories needs»

Now, the network of 38 national laboratories needs to nurture its own finances.

Not exact matches

«The industry needs those tools, and we need to provide them as soon as possible,» says Yuri Makarov, a blackouts researcher at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

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.

But Chris Fryer, a theoretical astrophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, says it is more likely that the standard afterglow model needs revision.

To address this concern, a team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee has developed a prototype system they say could let drivers cut the time needed to fully recharge from a home electrical outlet by a factor of 10 — from about eight hours to about 45 minutes.

According to John Turner, a research fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., who was not involved in the research, the discovery could reduce the need for platinum in a conventional electrolyzer.

A recent report by the office found that as the setting of technical standards becomes a European, rather than a national, issue fewer laboratories will be needed.

The new laser holds the promise of huge improvements in measurements of molecular structure, says physicist Jerry Hastings of Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, but he cautions that physicists first need some hands - on experience.

«The National Academy of Sciences recently convened a meeting to look at science missions in CubeSats,» said Bryce Tappan, an explosives chemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead researcher on the CubeSat Propulsion Concept team, «and identified propulsion as one of the primary categories of technology that needs to be developed.»

Now a new study by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that cool roofs can also save water by reducing how much is needed for urban irrigation.

They argue the leak may have happened when technicians botched the fabrication of a cerium - 144 source needed in the search for sterile neutrinos at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in L'Aquila, Italy.

A radio tracer chamber at Brookhaven National Laboratory was needed to test if Setaria viridis actually used nitrogen produced by the bacteria.

The sun blasts Earth with enough energy in one hour — 4.3 x 1020 joules — to provide all of humanity's energy needs for a year (4.1 x 1020 joules), according to physicist Steven Chu, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

«With business - as - usual, by 2016, it will get to $ 2.20 a watt, and so we need a significant change to get to $ 1 a watt,» said Arun Majumdar, whom Chu recruited from the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to run ARPA - E.

«We need [companies such as] IBM making this technology to get this stuff to the marketplace,» says Larry Kazmerski, director of the National Center for Photovoltaics at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colo..

The U.S. Department of Energy needs to improve how it runs a sprawling network of 17 national research laboratories, with less micromanagement and more ties to industry, according to a new report from an unusual coalition of think tanks.

We need quality measurements everyone agrees on, and the National Physical Laboratory is in the driving seat for such international programmes.

Melinda Hamilton, director of Idaho National Laboratory's education programs in Idaho Falls, agreed that there is a need to improve teaching of critical thinking and promote STEM education, but she argued that companies need to keep up their end of the bargain.

Specifically, she points to the need to expand the CDC's National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), which collects violent deaths statistics from death certificates, medical examiner and coroner files, law enforcement records, and crime laboratories.

In mid-2013, four federal nuclear safety experts brought an alarming message to the top official in charge of America's warhead production: Los Alamos National Laboratory, the nation's sole site for making and testing a key nuclear bomb part, wasn't taking needed safety precautions.

Congratulations to Dr. Ram Devanathan and Dr. Michel Dupuis at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on having their work grace the cover of From Quanta to the Continuum: Opportunities for Mesoscale Science, a Basic Research Needs report.

The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a part of NIH, provides laboratory scientists and clinical researchers with the resources and training they need to understand, detect, treat and prevent a wide range of diseases.

«Scientists have thought that because the starting point for superconductivity in these two classes of materials is so different, you need different theoretical approaches to describe them,» said J.C. Séamus Davis, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Cornell University, who led the team of experimental scientists.

Acknowledgments: This work was supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research, a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education, PNNL's Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program under the Carbon Sequestration Initiative, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

«To move beyond cataloging microbes, we will need new tools to rapidly determine microbial gene function and monitor the chemicals microbes use to communicate and interact with their environment, and new ways to visualize and model those interactions,» said Eoin Brodie, a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Earth Sciences Division and an author of the proposal.

Industries that use coal as a feedstock for manufacturing plastics, fertilizers, and other chemicals need such materials, and scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are working to oblige.

These integrated, multi-investigator centers involve partnerships among universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and for - profit firms that conduct fundamental research focusing on one or more «grand challenges» and use - inspired «basic research needs» identified in major strategic planning efforts by the scientific community.

In a new study from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of California at Santa Barbara, scientists have identified another elemental actor that helps activate palladium while reducing the amount of the precious metal needed for reactions to occur.

Most samples, by far, will need to be processed by national or regional diagnostic laboratories.

Dec. 18, 2017 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists and engineers have developed a «brain - on - a-chip» device aimed at testing and predicting the effects of biological and chemical agents, disease or pharmaceutical drugs on the brain over time without the need for human or animal subjects.

According to a feasibility study conducted by the National Nuclear Laboratory, there is a very significant global market need for energy that can not, in all circumstances, be met by large scale nuclear reactors and so presents a real opportunity for SMRs.

The plutonium product is converted to an oxide and shipped to Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the material will be stored until needed for a mission.

With continued NASA funding, DOE's Oak Ridge and Idaho national laboratories can ensure that NASA's needs are met, initially by producing 300 to 400 grams of the material per year and then, through automation and scale - up processes, by producing an average of 1.5 kilograms per year.

At Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, scientists mapped the reaction that turns wind - generated electricity into fuel and the amount of energy needed for each step.

Through «heart - on - a-chip» technology — modeling a human heart on an engineered chip and measuring the effects of compound exposure on functions of heart tissue using microelectrodes — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers hope to decrease the time needed for new drug trials and ensure potentially lifesaving drugs are safe and effective while reducing the need for human and animal testing.

At the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), numerous teams from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory shared their progress in understanding the fundamental reactions needed to ease our reliance on fossil fuels.

Production begins at Idaho National Laboratory, which stores the existing inventory of neptunium - 237 feedstock and ships it as needed to ORNL.

«Understanding how the coating works gives us an indication of the direction we need to move in to overcome the problems with silicon electrodes,» said materials scientist Chongmin Wang of the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

To communicate user needs to facility management, including NSLSL - II, the Energy Sciences Directorate, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Department of Energy

International Space Station: Measurable Performance Targets and Documentation Needed To Better Assess Management of National Laboratory.

A college partnership laboratory school shall be subject to all federal and state laws and regulations and constitutional provisions prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability, race, creed, color, gender, national origin, religion, ancestry, or need for special education services.

We work with two national laboratories and veterinary specialists, including orthopedic surgeons, internists, oncologists, ophthalmologists, dentists and dermatologists in the Kansas City metro area, to ensure that our patients receive the care they need for exceptional problems.

On the proper evaluation of electric motors, we have our Argonne National Laboratory and our Society of Automotive Engineers on record as calculating miles per gallon equivalent based on heat equivalent of electric energy at the plug, without recognition of the heat energy needed to make the electricity.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu described the need for an energy revolution, driven by basic research, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island.

I would have had no need, in my initial print story on the affair last December, to seek a comment from Patrick J. Michaels — a climatologist who speaks and writes on energy and climate policy for the Cato Institute, which fights most regulatory solutions to environmental problems — if Benjamin Santer of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, using his government e-mail account, had not vented to colleagues on October 9, 2009, in this way: Read more...

A comprehensive study by the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has demonstrated that currently available renewable technologies could affordably and reliably provide 80 percent of U.S. electricity needs by 2050.

«For decision makers to accurately weigh the pros and cons of geo - engineering against those of human - caused climate change, they need more information,» said Ben Kravitz, of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and one of a consortium which has published a succession of five studies in the Journal of Geophysical Research — Atmospheres.

To assure that future climate projections are used appropriately, it is crucial to understand what current models can simulate well, and where models need improvements,» said David Bader, with DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the coordinating lead author for this SAP report.

For the first time, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has published state - by - state energy and water Sankey diagrams in one location so that analysts and policymakers can find all the information they need in one place.

In a 2010 study, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory reported over 10 million MW of wind resource in the U.S., enough to power the equivalent of the nation's total electricity needs 10 times over.