Science Highlights
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New ARM mobile facility completes its first test at sea, will study climate The second ARM Mobile Facility, AMF2, is facing its first test on the open seas off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. |
July 1, 2010 | |
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Performing operational assessments to create enduring outcomes The Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance (COE-DMHA) is a part of the United States Pacific Command (PACOM) and is the principal agency to promote disaster prepar |
July 1, 2010 | |
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Squeezing information from materials under extreme pressure By compressing tiny amounts of material between two diamond anvils, scientists have for more than three decades been able to achieve pressures of over 1 million atmospheres. |
July 1, 2010 | |
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Coulomb dissociation: A new tool for nuclear astrophysics The stars shine because of nuclear reactions and nucleosynthesis processes. |
June 1, 2010 | |
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Argonne achieves dramatic improvement in low-temperature engine combustion Argonne engineers in the Center for Transportation Research are developing an advanced combustion system that achieves high efficiency (diesel-like) |
June 1, 2010 | |
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High-dielectric-constant capacitors for hybrid electric vehicles The DC bus capacitors are currently the largest component of inverters in hybrid electric vehicles. |
June 1, 2010 | |
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New catalyst for converting propane to propylene Argonne scientists discovered a new catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to propylene, one of the highest volume reactions carried out in the modern petrochemical industry. |
May 1, 2010 | |
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Quick-change molecules caught in the act The chemistry of life happens so fast that a millionth of a second is largely invisible to science and in that time, molecules change in ways we cannot see. |
May 1, 2010 | |
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New metal deposition technique offers promise for fuel cells, pacemakers Noble metal alloys have numerous applications in microelectronics, fuel cells, and medicine. For instance, platinum-iridium alloys are used for the electrodes in pacemakers. |
May 1, 2010 | |
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Imaging feldspar reactivity with X-ray reflection interface microscopy The mineral-fluid interface is the principal site of low-temperature geochemical processes at and near Earth’s surface, and exerts a powerful influence on natural geochemical cycles. |
May 1, 2010 |