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Mar 17 | News
Karl A. Gschneidner Jr., a senior metallurgist at Ames Lab, spoke before a House Subcommittee this week, cautioning them that rare-earth R&D in America is “virtually zero”. He went on to say that expertise in rare-earth alloying is crucial to economic performance and that the U.S. has given up much ground to other countries in this area.
Mar 15 | News
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments has partnered with Cerno Bioscience to offer Shimadzu’s LCMS quadrupole systems along with Cerno’s MassWorks software so users can improve data calibration for more accurate mass determination.
Mar 11 | News
By Ryan Averbeck and Jeffrey R. Jones. The battlefield and economic advantages provided by research and technology development efforts are as relevant today as they were in previous historical periods. Just as the first people to harness the knowledge of making bronze weapons or splitting the atom gained an advantage, the research conducted in our laboratories enables the U.S. to continue to be a viable superpower on the world stage.
Mar 11 | News
Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Lab are analyzing 1,000 samples of biomass at a time, finding which one, combined with the right enzyme, most eagerly gives up its sugars to be converted into biofuel. Their work is part of an effort to meet federal regulations that require the U.S. produce 36 billion gallons of biofuel by 2022.
Feb 16 | Featured Articles
Even in an age where swift return on investment is paramount and where expenditures are tightly controlled, there is still a thirst for research projects that are bold in their scope, grand in their challenge, and seminal in their results. Novel ways and strategies for collaborating put such goals within our grasp.
Feb 2 | RDBlog
Monday was probably a bittersweet day for NASA. Told that it would no longer be following President Bush’s lunar comeback effort or even launching its own astronauts into space, the agency must now look to contractors for their escape velocity needs.
Jan 20 | News
Fulfillment of this 2024 prediction by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory would require a $90 billion investment in the installation of land and sea wind towers and 22,000 miles of new high-tech power lines. And a big chunk of the project, says NREL, will need to be federally funded.
Jan 7 | RDBlog
Remember the sharp words between the two greenhouse gas heavyweights at Copenhagen earlier this year over whether China was still a developing country? From China's point of view, they are far from done "developing", and it has little to do with emissions. Instead, the core of their economy is clearly intended to be intellectual know-how that outstrips all others.
12/22/2009 | Featured Articles
To say that the outlook for government R&D laboratory executives is brighter for 2010 than 2009 would be a great understatement. At this time last year most laboratories were scrambling to adjust to a short-term financial upheaval brought about by an across-the-board freeze on budgets until March 2009.
12/22/2009 | Featured Articles
The Battelle/R&D Magazine team forecasts the U.S. R&D environment will begin to re-emerge in 2010, with total R&D spending reaching $401.9 billion, up 3.27% over the final 2009 estimate of $389.2 billion.