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Oak Ridge ‘Jaguar’ Supercomputer is World’s Fastest
An upgrade to a Cray XT5 high-performance computing system deployed by the Department of Energy has made the “Jaguar” supercomputer the world’s fastest. Located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Jagua...
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Read moreClean Algae Biofuel Project Leads World in Productivity
A joint $3.3 million project led by Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia, and involving the University of Adelaide in South Australia, now leads world algae biofuel research after more than ...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreSandia, Others Funded to Sequence Microbial Genes for Potential Biofuels Use
“This award positions a very talented team to collaboratively apply DOE’s unique facilities in genomics and systems biology to the important challenge of sustainable bioenergy production,” said Grant ...
Life Sciences | Read moreNew study predicts future consequences of a global biofuels program
A report examining the impact of a global biofuels program on greenhouse gas emissions during the 21st century has found that carbon loss stemming from the displacement of food crops and pastures for ...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreStandards for a new genomic era
A team of geneticists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, together with a consortium of international researchers, has recently proposed a set of standards designed to elucidate the quality of publicly...
Life Sciences | Read moreTurning Algae Into Energy
“People have been growing algae for centuries for food supplements for use by man and animals,” said Cecelia Williams, project lead. “It now has the potential to supply our energy needs too.”B...
Life Sciences | Read moreGenome sequence published for important biofuels yeast
A strain of yeast that thrives on turning sugar cane into ethanol for biofuel has had its genome completely sequenced by researchers at Duke University Medical Center."Understanding this ...
Life Sciences | Read moreIn Search of Wildlife-friendly Biofuels: Could Native Prairie Plants Be the Answer
In a paper published in the latest issue of the journal BioScience, David Flaspohler, Joseph Fargione and colleagues analyze the impacts on wildlife of the burgeoning conversion of grasslands to corn ...
Life Sciences | Read moreResearchers Looking for Catalyst That Allows Plants to Produce Hydrocarbons
Shanks, Iowa State’s Manley R. Hoppe Professor of Chemical Engineering, said some plants and algae produce hydrocarbons as a way to store carbon and energy. And those hydrocarbons could be used to cre...
Life Sciences | Read moreStrategy outlined for growing bioenergy while protecting wildlife
A study described in the October issue of BioScience identifies diverse native prairie as holding promise for yielding bioenergy feedstocks while minimizing harm to wildlife. Harvesting divers...
Life Sciences | Read moreUS tax breaks subsidize foreign oil production
The research demonstrates that the federal government provided substantially larger subsidies to fossil fuels than to renewables. Fossil fuels benefited from approximately $72 billion over the seven-y...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreBiofuel production could undercut efforts to shrink Gulf 'dead zone'
The zone, which reached the size of Massachusetts in 2008, forms in summer and threatens marine life and jobs in the region. Their study is scheduled for the Oct. 1 issue of ACS' semi-monthly jou...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreEnergy consumption makes Spanish forestry unsustainable
Spanish and Swedish scientists have compared the environmental load stemming from forestry operations, and have concluded that the Spanish sector uses more energy than the Swedish one. They are propos...
Agricultural and Forestry Science | Read moreHigh-res view of zinc transport protein
How much difference can a tenth of a nanometer make? When it comes to figuring out how proteins work, an improvement in resolution of that miniscule amount can mean the difference between seeing where...
Life Sciences | Read moreRNA Interference Found in Budding Yeasts
RELEVANCE: Some budding yeasts cause human diseases, while other budding yeasts are used in research as models for more complicated organisms, in industry to create beer and biofuels, and in pharmaceu...
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