A faint nightclub beat greets visitors to a small room housing the Localized Electron Atom Probe (LEAP). But that’s no stereo cranking out house music; it’s a rhythmic pump cooling a tiny sample to more than 220 ...
Materials Science
Apr 5, 2012
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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which is scheduled to launch this week, has the potential to be the most productive Mars surface mission in history. That's due in part to its nuclear heat and power source.
Space Exploration
Nov 21, 2011
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In Hollywood movies such as Terminator or I, Robot, highly intelligent computers that can learn, reason and make decisions try to take over the world.
Computer Sciences
Feb 7, 2011
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Mars is our next frontier. We'd like to know whether the Red Planet ever hosted its own life forms – and where it might be able to host human explorers. The twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity have outlasted their ...
Space Exploration
Feb 1, 2011
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The Cold War ended long ago, but its radioactive legacy still lingers in the water and soil of the western United States. Between 1950 and 1990, nuclear weapons materials production and processing at several federal facilities ...
Environment
Jan 11, 2011
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If you owned a fleet of 650,000-plus vehicles that are driven some 5 billion miles a year and use the equivalent of 390 million gallons of gasoline, how would you keep track of them all?
Engineering
Nov 16, 2010
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Hollywood movie studios aren't the only ones embracing 3-D technology. Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory and the Center for Advanced Energy Studies are using a new 3-D computer-assisted virtual environment -- or CAVE ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 19, 2010
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Three samples of premium wood-plastic composite lumber sit in a stack on a shelf in David Thompson's office at Idaho National Laboratory. The dense, fine-grained boards are uniformly colored in shades that range from light ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 13, 2010
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The next generation of Mars rovers could have smaller, cheaper, more robust and more sensitive life-detecting instruments, thanks to a new invention by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory.
General Physics
May 24, 2010
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Go down to the rifle range and fire a few rounds at a target 100 meters out. Chances are you won't hit the bull's-eye. Even if you read the wind right and don't twitch as you're squeezing the trigger, you may well fall at ...
Engineering
May 5, 2010
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