Black women make up a larger percentage of the Army than they do the general population, and are more likely to be diagnosed with hard-to-treat breast cancer than their fellow white soldiers. [Full Story…]
PNNL bioinformaticist Sam Payne is receiving a 5-year, $2.5-million Early Career Research Award to develop new computational methods to identify proteins that could improve biofuel production. [Full Story…]
PNNL has developed a nanoporous-based air-cleansing system for the Navy that can rapidly remove high levels of carbon dioxide from a submarine’s air environment. The technology recently won the Federal Laboratory Consortium Interagency Partnership Award for 2012. [Full Story…]
The 3rd International Conference on Nuclear Power Plant Life Management (PLiM) for Long Term Operations will be held May 13-17, 2012 at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center. This international conference will focus on extending the life world’s existing nuclear power plants. [Full Story…]
Small commercial building owners could save between 28 and 67 percent on their heating and cooling energy bills if they added four efficiency controls to their rooftop HVACS. [Full Story…]
The sugar O-GlcNAc is involved in regulating how proteins within nerve cells such as this one function. A new study expands the number of proteins subject to this regulation. [Full Story…]
A PNNL biosensor made of fluorescent proteins embedded in the shell of microscopic marine algae called diatoms could help detect chemicals in water samples. The same research could also lead to new, diatom-inspired nanomaterials. [Full Story…]
A study in Nano Letters that examines a new type of silicon-carbon nanocomposite electrode reveals details of how they function and how repeated use could wear them down. The study also provides clues to why this material performs better than silicon alon [Full Story…]
New research points to two important roles for bacteria that live in the underground fungal gardens of leafcutter ants: the bacteria both help decompose leaves that ants bring to the gardens and play a major role in turning those leaves into nutrients for both ants and the fungi. [Full Story…]
Researchers solved a long-standing puzzle known as Fermi resonance. [Full Story…]
