Sentences with phrase «scientists at national laboratories»

Located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the NERSC Center serves more than 6,000 scientists at national laboratories and universities researching a wide range of problems in combustion, climate modeling, fusion energy, materials science, physics, chemistry, computational biology, and other disciplines.

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Scientists planning NIF experiments may also wish to consider preparatory experiments at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Jupiter Laser Facility and other laser facilities across the National Nuclear Security Administration complex.

Image: NIF Scientists with the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced today that they have achieved a critical step in fusion research: For the first time, their hydrogen fuel has given off more energy than it took in.

-- At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Scientists dated dinosaur bones using the Carbon dating method.

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.

David A. Dixon, professor of chemistry at the University of Alabama, and his graduate student, Ted Garner, provided the calculations and theory on why the californium could bond in such unique ways, while scientists at Argonne National Laboratory helped correlate the theory with the experiments.

«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.

Scientists, engineers and technicians at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have achieved for high - energy neutrino experiments a world record: a sustained 521 - kilowatt beam generated by the Main Injector particle accelerator.

«Quantifying the Risk of Extreme Events Under Climate Change» by Eric Gilleland, project scientist at the Research Applications Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research; Richard W. Katz, senior scientist at the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences at the National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Philippe Naveau, senior scientist at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Robert Ritchie, a materials scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, says the work is a useful analysis.

In the past scientists have spent a lot of time trying to make algae produce oil or solve other problems, most famously at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory [pdf].

«Now, we can suddenly use ordinary magnetic materials, combine them in a clever way with other materials, and make them work at room temperature,» says materials scientist Axel Hoffmann of Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.

«Some claims do not sound true,» said environmental engineer Vasilis Fthenakis, a senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory's National Photovoltaics Environmental Research Center, in 2008.

It was conducted by a team of scientists at the University of Colorado, Boulder, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory.

If we are trying to manage the climate system to control it and engineer it, we have to be able to measure what we are doing to it,» said Dian Seidel, a climate scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Air Resources Laboratory.

Ashok Gadgil, a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, said previous cookstove initiatives failed for a variety of reasons.

Tsou worked with scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California to make the aerogel even lighter to improve its particle - catching ability.

The resulting $ 1.16 million Extreme Events initiative would test the trio's approach against the most advanced power grid simulator then available, operated by scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), to predict where and how often big blackouts struck.

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.

But even today, scientists «are fired after 5 years at the CNRS» — the French national research agency — «so the research organizations or universities won't be obliged to give them an open - ended contract, which very much complicates their lives and the lives of the laboratories,» says Guillaume Bossis, a CNRS biologist at the Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier.

Concerned that the United States» 10,000 - strong stockpile of atomic bombs are past their prime, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are vying to design the first new nuclear bomb in the United States since the W88 warhead in the mid-1980s.

«A trained scientist understands the broader context, but many segments of the general public may not,» said Seth Darling, a nanoscientist at Argonne National Laboratory who has written a book on communicating climate science to the general public.

Adds Harold Brooks, senior scientist at NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory, who was not involved with this project, «The study is important because it addresses one of the hypotheses that has been raised to explain the observed change in number of tornadoes in outbreaks.

However, the connection between the chemical diversity of soil and microbial diversity is poorly understood,» said Trent Northen, a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

The work, performed at the Advanced Photon Source at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, will have a significant impact on our understanding of the lower mantle, scientists said.

Scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in collaboration with researchers from University of California campuses at Merced and Davis have found that a secreted protein predominantly expressed in bone inhibits prostate cancer metastasis to bone.

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are making progress on electrofuels [using microbes to turn carbon dioxide back into liquid fuels similar to gasoline].

«The performance has been awful,» says Yinmin «Morris» Wang, a materials scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

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.

At the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's National Wind Technology Center (NWTC), government scientists and engineers partner with industry and academia to test new renewable energy technologies.

Michael Thoennessen, a professor and associate director of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NCSL) at Michigan State University in East Lansing believes that mentors can help young scientists by modeling the costs and rewards of persistence.

He worked as a «glass scientist» at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2011 and 2012, and then as a senior scientist at Sterlite Technologies Ltd. in India before joining the Rutgers faculty in January 2014.

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.

«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.

The Systems Biology Group at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, employs 90 - plus staff scientists working on proteomics, microbial - cell dynamics, cell and molecular imaging and spectroscopy, computational biology, and bioinformatics.

A team of scientists at the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of NIH, created VRC07 - αCD3 under the leadership of VRC Director John R. Mascola, M.D.; former VRC Director Gary J. Nabel, M.D., Ph.D.; and Richard A. Koup, M.D., VRC deputy director and chief of its immunology laboratory.

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.

Joseph Berry, senior research scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, who studies solar cells but was not involved in the research, said the research project is interesting because the device scales well and targets a specific part of the solar spectrum.

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a laboratory instrument that can measure how much of the carbon in many carbon - containing materials was derived from fossil fuels.

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.

Health: Combined Optical and Magnetic Resonance Microscope - «Studying cells in real time» Dr. Robert Wind, Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA helped develop a combined microscope that can study live cells at the same time with two completely different microscopic techniques.

«Our new tag essentially allows fish to undergo a quick outpatient procedure,» said Zhiqun «Daniel» Deng, a scientist at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

«It's kind of a national crisis,» said Tom Wilbanks, a senior scientist at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a co-author of the 109 - pagenational crisis,» said Tom Wilbanks, a senior scientist at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a co-author of the 109 - pageNational Laboratory and a co-author of the 109 - page report.

«Our measurements are so precise, and any vibrations — like a person walking by — can affect what we measure,» said Peter Ercius, a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and an author of the paper.

«Until the 1990s, we thought that the Van Allen belts were pretty well - behaved and changed slowly,» said Geoff Reeves, the first author on the paper and a radiation belt scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. «With more and more measurements, however, we realized how quickly and unpredictably the radiation belts changed.

Working at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the scientists then used a newly designed injection system, engineered by a team from Arizona State University, to stream the gel into the path of the X-ray pulses, which hit the crystals and produced patterns used to reconstruct a high - resolution, 3 - D model of the receptor.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new oxygen «sponge» that can easily absorb or shed oxygen atoms at low temperatures.

Scientists at the U.S Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have discovered a new way to generate very low - resistance electric current in a new class of materials.

«Of course we learned quite a bit from that technique, but at the same time they were also using completely [artificial conditions],» recalls Mina Bissell, a distinguished scientist in the Biological Systems and Engineering Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.