10.08.12PRESS RELEASE
The button mushroom occupies a prominent place in our diet and in the grocery store where it boasts a tasty multibillion-dollar niche, while in nature, Agaricus bisporus is known to decay leaf matter on the forest floor. Now, owing to an international collaboration of two-dozen institutions led by the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), the full repertoire of A. bisporus genes has been determined.
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10.05.12From the Labs
The search for dark matter runs deep with physicists Blas Cabrera and Bernard Sadoulet, who have chased this mystery far underground and will be recognized for their work as joint recipients of the 2013 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics.
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10.03.12From the Labs
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Ames Laboratory have discovered the underlying order in metallic glasses, which may hold the key to the ability to create new high-tech alloys with specific properties.
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10.01.12From the Labs
Climate instruments mounted aboard the Horizon Spirit container ship begin taking data.
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09.27.12From the Labs
How do you get named one of the 10 most exciting and innovative young scientists of the year? Start by pioneering a new way to map the cosmos, a thousand quasars at a time.
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09.07.12From the Labs
Today, technicians in Minnesota will begin to position the first block of a detector that will be part of the largest, most advanced neutrino experiment in North America.
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08.13.12From the Labs
Energy scan at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals first signs of phase boundary.
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08.06.12Press Release
Under an initiative called FastForward, the Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have awarded $62 million in research and development (R&D) contracts to five leading companies in high performance computing to accelerate the development of next-generation supercomputers vital to national defense, scientific research, energy security, and the nation's economic competitiveness.
08.01.12From the Labs
The August issue features a voyage into the deep dark quantum sea, a few bits about the Big Data effort, and 'sightings' of the Higgs boson by Symmetry readers.
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07.25.12Press Release
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