Alaska timber projection study reveals market trends
...al demand for products allows addition of a second facility to use low-grade logs to produce a fiber, chemical, or energy product; assumes limited volumes of low-grade logs are available for private timberland owners in southeast Alaska. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered that the study be done afte...Carnegie scientists fine-tuning methods for Stardust analysis
...rkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source facility in California enables a technique called XANES spectroscopy, which can help characterize the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen species in organic matter. Since the carbon-containing materials from Wild-2 are likely to be little changed since the birth of ...NSLS student-researcher talks at the March APS Meeting
... high-school and college students, who come to the facility to perform research using its bright beams of x-ray, ultraviolet, and infrared light. This year, four of these students will be presenting the results of their research at the March meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) in Baltimore, Marylan...Biodesign Institute at ASU named lab of the year in international competition
...es where the research performed is enhanced by the facility surroundings, where the tenants work in a safe and productive environment, where walking into the facility is an uplifting experience, and where the facility enhances the client's ability to recruit top rese...Broad Foundation donates $25 million to create new stem cell institute at USC
...chool of Medicine of USC. The 215,000-square-foot facility will be the largest stem cell research center in C...The institute will have a state-of-the-art imaging facility and a biotechnology transfer center that is expected to become an essential resource for researchers...PNNL recognized for commercializing technology
... application. Bacterin is a medical device testing facility for medical implant manufacturers and has FDA approval for applying the thin-film coating to medical devices for orthopedic and medical implants. Brachytherapy cancer treatment seed The brachytherapy seed cancer treatment process uses cesium-131, a...Grand challenge seeks carbon sequestration, hydrogen production solutions
...ecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) , a NationalUser facility managed by the Pacific Northwest National Laborato...f work cannot be done without access to a DOE user facility such as EMSL"Cyanobacteria have played an influential role in the evolution of the terrestrial envir...ASU and Mayo lead 'MAC Attack' to accelerate cancer research
...rative Research Building. This 110,000 square foot facility will include a new home for MAC5, with approximately 9,000 square feet of space for MAC5 personnel. Several staff members will have joint appoints at Mayo Clinic and ASU. MAC5 will combine the efforts of Mayo Clinic physicians with the capabilities ...CU, USDA team to curb two invasive, poisonous vines
...ear project, is working with researchers at a USDA facility in Montpellier, France, and other colleagues who are working in Ukraine and southwestern Europe to identify the plants' natural enemies. The plants contain strong poisons, which likely limit natural enemies. Deer and cattle do not eat them. Researche......ft enables the completion of the most cutting-edge facility on UT Southwestern's campus." Dr. Craig Malloy, ho...150,000 square feet of space. Core funding for the facility was provided by $56 million in bonds authorized by the 2003 Texas Legislature with the support of Sp...Accumulator ring commissioning latest step for spallation neutron source
...to be used for research. The DOE Office of Science facility will produce the world's most intense neutron beam... order of magnitude more beam power than any other facility in the world. In SNS operation, the superconducting linac produces proton pulses traveling at almost...New study: Inequality in recreational resources decreases physical activities, boosts weight gain
...act of facilities on behavior. "We found that each facility in the adolescents' communities increased the likelihood that they would meet physical activity recommendations and reduced their likelihood of being overweight," Gordon-Larsen said. "Larger numbers of facilities had a greater impact on increasing ex...18 million hours of supercomputing time awarded to 15 teams for large-scale scientific computing
...ram was also expanded from a single supercomputing facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to five supercomputers at four DOE national laboratories. The laboratories participating are Argonne National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Pacific North...Argonne researchers contribute 1000th structure
...rinos said. "This Department of Energy-funded user facility continues to find ways for scientists to further s...are committed," said Joachimiak, "to modernize the facility and expand its capabilities to maintain its leadership in structural biology for the community."...Hi ho silver! FSU physicist helps discover an atomic oddity
... nuclei with neutron excesses, and we have built a facility to directly study reactions and nuclei of importance to astrophysics," Tabor said. Not all of Tabor's work is on such an elevated plane. At FSU he also serves as coordinator of "The Flying Circus of Physics," an open house and science fair hosted eve...ACS Chemistry Enterprise 2015 report predicts strong growth, expanding markets
...terials . By 2015, at least one new nuclear power facility will be built in the United States; China will have a significant investment in nuclear energy, which will create more jobs for chemists and other scientists. Research and Innovation . By 2015, barring new emergencies, the research portfolio ...UC San Diego partners with Venter Institute to build marine microbial genomics cyberinfrastructure
...e proud to develop this world-class and pioneering facility on our UCSD campus." The Gordon and Betty Moore Fo... TeraGrid distributed, high- performance computing facility in a unified Service Oriented Architecture. SDSC's Philip Papadopoulos noted that, "the CAMERA compl...Report highlights DOE Joint Genome Institute achievements
...int Genome Institute. As the leading national user facility targeting microbes and microbial communities, plants, and aquatic organisms, DOE JGI is serving to close a critical gap of knowledge while unlocking the potential of this largely unexplored cache of the planet's living matter. Highlights from the sc...Science's Breakthrough of the Year: Watching evolution in action
...onal Linear Collider, a multibillion-dollar global facility that may be the key to the future of particle physics. Areas to watch in 2006: This year, Science 's predictions for hot fields and topics in the upcoming year include drug and vaccine development for avian flu, RNA-interference in humans, high-tem...DOE Joint Genome Institute issues new call for large-scale sequencing proposals
...rs have stepped up and validated DOE JGI as a user facility with a solid portfolio of prospects for yielding the gold nuggets from the planet's biodiversity." A sequenced genome provides researchers a detailed parts catalog for characterizing an organism's environmental niche and the starting material for exp...