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Findings could lead to new strategies for sustainable agriculture and biofuel productionYou might think bacteria that "invade" trees are there to cause certain destruction. But like the helpful bacteria that live within our guts, some microbes help plants thrive. To find out what makes these microbe-plant interactions "tick," scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory decoded the genome of a plant-dwelling microbe they'd previously...
RIDGEWOOD, N.J., April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Green Bridge Industries, Inc. (Pink Sheets: GRBG) is pleased to announce that the Company's wholly owned subsidiary, Organic Product Solutions (OPS), promoted Earth Day 2010 at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Earth Day fair. OPS' product line was featured and showcased at yesterdays Environmental Vendor Fair on Long Island, New York. The company's products were marketed by Three Gals Industrial Supply. Three Gals is a reseller of OPS'...
A worldwide team of researchers, including 10 from Texas A&M University, have for the first time created a particle that is believed to have been in existence immediately after the creation of the universe "“ the so-called "Big Bang" "“ and it could lead to new questions and answers about some of the basic laws of physics because in essence, it creates a new form of matter.Researchers Carl Gagliardi, Saskia Mioduszewski, Robert Tribble, Matthew Cervantes, Rory Clarke, Martin...
Could lead to design of water-shedding materials for applications in energy, medicine, and moreScientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have obtained the first glimpse of miniscule air bubbles that keep water from wetting a super non-stick surface. Detailed information about the size and shape of these bubbles "” and the non-stick material the scientists created by "pock-marking" a smooth material with cavities measuring mere billionths of a meter "” is...
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- In Defense of Animals (IDA), an international animal protection organization with over 85,000 members, today released letters from celebrities opposed to NASA-funded experiments. The experiments, which NASA wants conducted at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), involve irradiating squirrel monkeys. IDA and the International Primate Protection League (IPPL), a South Carolina-based non-profit dedicated to protecting the world's primates, filed a...
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York report they have created the hottest temperature in the lab -- 4 trillion degrees Celsius -- which is thought to be consistent with actual temperatures that existed when the universe was born. The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was used to smash gold ions together to make super-heated explosions that lasted only milliseconds. RHIC is a particle accelerator that is 2.4 miles around and is buried 12...
Data suggest symmetry may 'melt' along with protons and neutronsScientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a 2.4-mile-circumference particle accelerator at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, report the first hints of profound symmetry transformations in the hot soup of quarks, antiquarks, and gluons produced in RHIC's most energetic collisions. In particular, the new results, reported in the journal Physical Review Letters, suggest that...
Newly patented method could improve superconductors, optical devices, and microelectronicsTwo scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a method to control the buildup of hydrogen fluoride gas during the growth of precision crystals needed for applications such as superconductors, optical devices, and microelectronics. The invention "” by Vyacheslav Solovyov and Harold Wiesmann and recently awarded U.S. Patent number 7,622,426 "”...
Researchers show how proteins slide along DNA to carry out vital biological processesA team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, Harvard University, and the Indian Institute of Science has made a major step in understanding how molecules locate the genetic information in DNA that is necessary to carry out important biological processes. The research, published in the December 1, 2009 edition of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology,...
CORAL GABLES, Fla., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners, Inc. (NasdaqCM: CPRX) today reported that a team of neuroscientists at The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System (LIJ) has received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to conduct an animal study of the use of vigabatrin in combination with opiates to effectively manage pain while reducing the potential for opiate addiction....
