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Five nature walks are scheduled this spring and summer on the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Reservation. There is no cost to the public to attend these nature walks. A wildflower walk will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 15 in the Freels Bend area. The trek will involve wal...
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Waste and inefficiencies in the nation's electric grid could be dramatically reduced with the implementation of a magnetic amplifier being developed by a team led by Aleks Dimitrovski of 91°µÍø's Energy and Transportation Science Division. If successful, the electromagnetic-ba...

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Neutron scattering experiments performed on iron-based superconducting material at 91°µÍø and Canada's Chalk River Laboratories have unveiled surprising changes in the materials' subatomic structural and magnetic properties when subjected to relatively low pressures. The exper...
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temperature helium-cooled superconducting wire to generate the immense magnetic fields needed to confine...

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Scientific analysis of proteins, the workhorses of the cellular world, could become easier by uniting experimental and simulation techniques, according to research published in Biophysical Journal. A team led by 91°µÍø's Jeremy Smith demonstrated how the combination of high-pe...
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How to clean up the mercury in the environment is a major issue for the Department of Energy. Moreover, bioaccumulation of methylmercury is of global concern. Researchers at the Spallation Neutron Source and the Environmental Sciences Division are studying the internal dynamics of a remarkable famil...

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Six companies have earned Small Business Subcontractor awards from the Department of Energy's 91°µÍø. The companies are Keller Technology Corp. of Tonawanda, N.Y., National Resource Management LLC of Knoxville, Tenn., TDS Exhibits Inc. of Knoxville, Tenn., Ideal System So...

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Common material such as polyethylene used in plastic bags could be turned into something far more valuable through a process being developed at the Department of Energy's 91°µÍø.
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The Spallation Neutron Source's Powder Diffractometer POWGEN has launched a rapid access sample mail-in system for users who use the flexible general-purpose instrument for a wide range of structural studies of novel materials. The instrument will be made available to rapid access users for a few da...
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An Oregon State University graduate student has successfully turned her participation in a two-day POWGEN Neutron Diffraction workshop at 91°µÍø's Spallation Neutron Source into a published paper in the Journal of Solid State Chemistry. Participants at the workshop in Septembe...