New carbon dioxide-removing catalyst can take the heat

May 24 | News

The current method of removing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the flues of coal-fired power plants uses so much energy that no one bothers to use it. So says Roger Aines, principal investigator for a team that has developed an entirely new catalyst for separating out and capturing carbon dioxide, one that mimics a naturally occurring catalyst operating in our lungs.

Civil engineers find savings where the rubber meets the road

May 23 | News

A new study by civil engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows that using stiffer pavements on the nation's roads could reduce vehicle fuel consumption by as much as 3%—a savings that could add up to 273 million barrels of crude oil per year, or $15.6 billion at today's oil prices. This would result in an accompanying annual decrease in carbon dioxide emissions of 46.5 million metric tons.

Japan minister visits nuke plant amid safety worry

2 hours ago | News

Japan's environment and nuclear minister visited the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant Saturday to inspect a spent fuel pool at the center of safety concerns.The visit by Goshi Hosono comes amid renewed concerns about the conditions of Unit 4 after its operator reported...

Brookhaven Lab’s Adzic Named ‘Inventor of the Year’

8 hours ago | News

The New York Intellectual Property Law Association has honored senior chemist Radoslav Adzic for his extensive nanocatalyst research.

Atomic-scale Visualization of Electron Pairing in Iron Superconductors(2)

8 hours ago | News

By measuring how strongly electrons are bound together to form Cooper pairs in an iron-based superconductor, scientists provide direct evidence supporting theories in which magnetism holds the key to this material’s ability to carry current with no resistance.

New Technique Uses Electrons to Map Nanoparticle Atomic Structures(2)

8 hours ago | News

A Brookhaven/Columbia Engineering School team of scientists shwos how a form of nanocrystallography can be carried out using a transmission electron microscope ‹ an instrument found in many chemistry and materials science laboratories.

Searching the Universe for Highly Energetic Cosmic Particles and Role Models

8 hours ago | News

Petra Huetenmeyer of Michigan Technological University will give a talk titled “Searching the Universe for Highly Energetic Cosmic Particles and Role Models,” at BNL on Thursday, May 17, at 4 p.m. in Berkner Hall.

Nanosheet Catalyst Discovered to Sustainably Split Hydrogen from Water(2)

8 hours ago | News

Low-cost non-noble electrocatalyst efficiently generates hydrogen gas for fuel.

Winning Projects at Brookhaven Lab’s 2012 Elementary School Science Fair — From ‘Hot or Not?’ to ‘The Green Cupcake’

8 hours ago | News

More than 540 science projects from 118 Suffolk County schools were entered into the 2012 Elementary School Science Fair.

MEDIA ADVISORY: Physicists Explore New Frontiers in Computing

8 hours ago | News

More than 500 physicists and computational scientists from around the world meet to discuss the current state and future of high-energy and nuclear physics — and the evolutionary, or even revolutionary, development of computational tools essential to these fields.

Mathematician Ingrid Daubechies to Speak on 'Surfing with Wavelets' at Brookhaven Lab, June 7

8 hours ago | News

Ingrid Daubechies, a physicist and mathematician will give a talk entitled, “Surfing With Wavelets” at Brookhaven Lab on Thursday, June 7, at 4 p.m. in Berkner Hall.

Weekly US oil, gas rig count down by 3 to 1,983

16 hours ago | News

The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. is down three this week to 1,983.Houston-based oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. reported Friday that 1,383 rigs were exploring for oil and 594 were looking for gas. Six were listed as miscellaneous. A year ago...

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Judges wanted for the 50th Annual R&D 100 Awards

Jan 27 | RDBlog

Expert in electronics? Professional in process science? Do you breathe biotech? If you have an area of expertise (and better yet, interest) consider spending a couple hours of your time and helping us evaluate some of the best and most unique high-technology products of the year.

Wanted: 2011's Top Technologies

8/15/2011 | RDBlog

The editors of R&D Magazine have opened the nominations for the 2012 R&D 100 Awards competition, which will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the awards. If your organization introduced a new product this year, or is planning to, you can begin the entry process now.

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How to Bring Solar Energy to Seven Billion People

5/24/2010 | Videos

April 6, 2009 Science at the Theater talk: By exploiting the powers of nanotechnology and taking advantage of non-toxic, Earth-abundant materials, Berkeley Lab's Cyrus Wadia has fabricated new solar cell devices that have the potential to be several orders of magnitude less expensive than...

Video #1 Amperage Regulation- EnergyResearchToday.com

5/24/2010 | Videos

This video demonstrates our patent pending Hydro-Safe controller which has a many integrated features. These features were developed as a result of Lab and field testing performed by our team since 2006. This demonstration shows how the current limiting function portion of the controller...