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• The formula for turning cement into metal

  In a move that would make the Alchemists of King Arthur's time green with envy, scientists have unraveled the formula for turning liquid cement into liquid metal. This makes cement a semi-conductor and opens up its use in the profitable consumer electronics marketplace for thin films, protective coa more

• X-ray analysis could boost legumes, thus reducing fertilizer pollution
  

  The overuse of nitrogen fertilizers in agriculture can wreak havoc on waterways, health and the environment. An international team of scientists aims to lessen the reliance on these fertilizers by helping beans and similar plants boost their nitrogen production, even in areas with traditionally poor more

• Nanotechnology imaging breakthrough
  

  A team of researchers has made a major breakthrough in measuring the structure of nanomaterials under extremely high pressures. For the first time, they developed a way to get around the severe distortions of high-energy X-ray beams that are used to image the structure of a gold nanocrystal. The tec more

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• [News of the Week] Random Sample

  President Barack Obama touted his proposed energy research funding plan before a crowd of sequester-anxious, government-funded researchers at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, and the Wellcome Library in London has put together a Web site that tells the story behind the discove more

• A comparative study of X‐ray tomographic microscopy on shales at different synchrotron facilities: ALS, APS and SLS

  Synchrotron radiation X‐ray tomographic microscopy (SRXTM) was used to characterize the three‐dimensional microstructure, geometry and distribution of different phases in two shale samples obtained from the North Sea (sample N1) and the Upper Barnett Formation in Texas (sample B1). Shale is a chal more

• A Spatially and Temporally Explicit Life Cycle Inventory of Air Pollutants from Gasoline and Ethanol in the United States

  The environmental health impacts of transportation depend in part on where and when emissions occur during fuel production and combustion. Here we describe spatially and temporally explicit life cycle inventories (LCI) of air pollutants from gasoline, ethanol derived from corn grain, and ethanol fro more

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