Machine Learning IDs Markers to Help Predict Alzheimer's
A team from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University Medical Center, Stony Brook University, and Ilsan Hospital in South Korea has shown that a combination of two different modes of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computer-based image analysis, and image classification using machine learning models may be a promising approach to accurately predicting Alzheimer’s risk.
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Graphene Helps Protect Photocathodes for Physics Experiments
Argonne scientists have developed a way to extend the lifetime of photocathodes by wrapping them up in a protective coat of atomically thin grapheme.
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UEC Profile: Science in High Places
Hooked on science early, researcher and professor Gannet Hallar now investigates clouds and aerosols in the Intermountain West.
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Artur Apresyan Receives $2.5 Million Award to Develop Detectors for High-Luminosity LHC
The upgraded collider will produce collisions at seven times the rate of the current LHC. Apresyan’s work will ensure the CMS detector can take on the particle flood.
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David Green: Teaming Up to Solve Questions in Fusion
David Green, a computational physicist in the Theory and Modeling group of the Fusion and Materials for Nuclear Systems Division, came to ORNL as a postdoc from Newcastle University in Australia. He studied physics during his undergraduate years and worked for a semester in a professor’s lab, which engaged him more than the typical lectures and got him interested in research.
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Engage Engines! New Research Illuminates Complex Processes Inside Plasma Propulsion Systems for Satellites
If you think plasma thrusters are found only in science fiction, think again. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have been uncovering the physics behind these high-tech engines, which maneuver satellites in space. New research involving computer simulations gives physicists confidence that they can peer into the inner workings of these machines.
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All Aboard the Jungle Express!
In the quest to find the key to a rainforest dwelling bacterium’s lignin-degrading ability, researchers at the Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have constructed a gene expression system that outperforms conventional systems. Controlling gene expression is crucial to scientists’ ability to perform basic science and biotechnological research to produce enzymes, bio-based products, and biofuels, both at the bench and on industrial scales.
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STAR Team Receives Secretary's Achievement Award
The Brookhaven Lab scientists, engineers, and support staff who run the Solenoidal Tracker (STAR) experiment at the Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) received one of 17 Achievement Awards presented by Secretary of Energy Rick Perry at the Secretary’s Honor Awards ceremony held in Washington, D.C. August 29.
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Optimal Magnetic Fields for Suppressing Instabilities in Tokamaks
Physicists at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, working with a team of collaborators from the United States and the National Fusion Research Institute in Korea, have successfully predicted the entire set of beneficial 3D distortions for controlling ELMs without creating more problems. Researchers validated these predictions on the Korean Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research facility, one of the world's most advanced superconducting tokamaks, located in Daejeon, South Korea.
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Nanoparticles for Improving Smart-Window Energy Efficiency
Argonne has patented a new process for synthesizing vanadium dioxide nanoparticles that makes manufacturing energy-efficient “smart windows” economical.
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Synthesis Studies Transform Waste Sugar for Sustainable Energy Storage Applications
A research team at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory has now discovered a way to create functional materials from the impure waste sugars produced in the biorefining processes.
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Cracking the Code to Soot Formation
The longstanding mystery of soot formation, which combustion scientists have been trying to explain for decades, appears to be finally solved, thanks to research led by Sandia National Laboratories.
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