Solar Lighting Could Create Jobs in Developing World
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Lab researcher Evan Mills, who has been studying lighting in the developing world for more than two decades, has conducted the first global analysis of how the transition to solar-LED lighting will impact employment. He found that moving away from kerosene and other fuel-based lighting could create 2 million new jobs. More>
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CO2 Harnessed to Consolidate Biofuel Production Process
JBEI scientists have shown that adding carbon dioxide gas during the deconstruction phase of biofuel production successfully neutralized the toxicity of ionic liquids. The technique, which is reversible, allows the liquid to be recycled, representing a major step forward in streamlining the biofuel production process. More>
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Chemical 'Sponges' Soak Up Toxic Cancer-fighting Drugs After Targeting Tumors
Researchers are creating materials for a cancer treatment system that can limit the side effects of chemotherapy drugs by quickly removing them from the body after use. The device can be inserted via a tiny tube into a vein, then soaks up most of these drugs like a sponge. More>
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Lab to Lead New Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area
The focus area seeks to quantify and predict how perturbations to mountainous watersheds - such as floods, droughts, fire and early snowmelt - impact the downstream delivery of water, nutrients, carbon, and metals. EESA's Susan Hubbard will lead the effort, funded by the DOE with over $20 million for three years, and involving more than 65 scientists from several institutions. More>
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Dark Energy Measured with Record-Breaking Map of 1.2 Million Galaxies
A team of hundreds of physicists and astronomers, including those from Berkeley Lab, have announced results from the largest-ever, three-dimensional map of distant galaxies. The team constructed this map to make one of the most precise measurements yet of the dark energy currently driving the accelerated expansion of the Universe. More>
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Scientists Grow Atomically Thin Transistors and Circuits
In an advance that helps pave the way for next-generation electronics and computing technologies - and possibly paper-thin gadgets - researchers developed a way to chemically assemble transistors and circuits that are only a few atoms thick. Their method yields structures at a scale large enough to begin thinking about real-world applications and commercial scalability. More>
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While Data Centers Proliferate, Their Energy Use Plateaus
In the first comprehensive energy analysis of data centers in nearly 10 years, Lab researchers Arman Shehabi, Dale Sartor, Sarah Smith, Richard Brown, and Magnus Herrlin found that electricity consumption by data centers nationwide, after rising for more than a decade, started to plateau in 2010 and has remained steady since. More>
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New Mathematics Accurately Captures Liquids and Surfaces Moving in Synergy
Researchers in the Computational Research Division have developed a new mathematical framework that allows fluid dynamics to be captured at unprecedented detail. The work could be used in a range of applications, such as optimizing the shape of a propeller blade and the ejection of ink droplets in printers. More>
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