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Tracing the Lena
The Arctic Ocean accounts for only two percent of the world's
seawater but takes in more than ten percent of the world's freshwater
runoff — most from just six rivers. Tracing Arctic river water
is a high priority for Earth scientists: a tip in the Arctic
Ocean's freshwater balance could accelerate global warming.
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In Series |
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Continuing a series on the role of Berkeley Lab researchers
in planning for the proposed International Linear Collider,
an extraordinary new machine to explore fundamental particles
and forces. This installment: damping
rings to prepare the beams. |
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The Parallel
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Today's supercomputers are fast, but when
it comes to scientific applications, most fall short of
their supposed capabilities. A new study reports on the work
Berkeley Lab scientists and other collaborators have done with
IBM — with some advances already being put into effect
— that has benefited the computer vendor and promises to
markedly improve scientific computing.
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A Life Sciences researcher has devised
a homebrew program called GenoPharm to help make searching the
literature for connections
among genes easier. GenoPharm hunts for links not the way
Google does, by keyword, but the way scientists do, through
associations.
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Across the Protein Universe
There are least 50 billion proteins in the protein universe,
and there may be trillions more. A new
three-dimensional map makes it easier to visualize new discoveries
in context. By introducing proteins to their neighbors and making
evolutionary relationships clear, it can help predict how an
unknown protein functions.
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Warming at the Polarons
Traditional computers operate using the electron's charge, but
the newest devices make use of electron spin as well. Researchers
have discovered one way that electronic states are affected
in magnetic materials exhibiting the phenomenon of colossal
magnetoresistance: a surprising distortion
in the crystal lattice, called a polaron.
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