Hot Running Magnets
(April 2008 Popular Mechanics)
Popular Mechanics magazine carries a news brief on Ames Lab's development of a magnetic alloy, designed for use in electric-powered vehicles, that retains its magnetic properties at high operating temperatures. (Go to story)
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Competing for Science Glory
Daily reporter Kyle Ferguson talks to competitors and organizers of the 18th annual Ames Lab/ISU High School Science Bowl, held Jan. 26 on the ISU campus. (Go to story) |

Media Credit: Eloisa Perez-Lozano Neil Patel, left, and Nicholas Jaegers, both of Ottumwa High School, |
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Ames teacher brings world-class science back to classroom
Ames Tribune staff writer Bob Zientara interviewed Ames middle school science teacher Daniel Andrews about participating in the U.S. Department of Energy's Academies Creating Teacher Scientists or ACTS program at the Ames Laboratory. (Go to story)
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Zinc Compounds Tuned to Model
Other Materials (Sept. 2007)
The discovery of a
family of zinc compounds that can be
tuned, or manipulated, to exert some of the
physical properties and behavior of other
materials, ranging from copper to elements
like palladium, to more complex electronic
and magnetic compounds by Paul Canfield's research group is featured in the September issue of MRS Bulletin. (Go to story - scroll down) |
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Counterfeiters Beware: You left your signature behind (7/23/07)
Scientific American reporter Sourish Basu talks with Ames Lab chemist Roger Jones about using new DART mass spectrometry to analyze forensic ink samples quicker, with more detail and without damaging the evidence. (Go to story). |

Cooking Up More Uses for the Leftovers of Biofuel Production (8/8/07)
The New York Times reported on Victor Lin's work to improve biodiesel production in an Aug. 8 story. |

Smith looks for other ways to make ethanol (7/23/07)
Wallaces Farmer carries news of Ames Lab chemist Emily Smith work in using Raman imaging to help identify crops particularly suited for use in production of cellulosic ethanol. (Go to story). |

Light Fantastic: Flirting With Invisibility (6/12/07)
New York Times science reporter Kenneth Chang writes about advances in metamaterials research, invisibility, and mentions the advance by Ames Lab's Costas Soukoulis to make materials work for visible light. (Go to story). |

Scientists want to ID good ethanol crops (6/5/07)
AMES, Iowa, June 5 (UPI) -- U.S. government scientists are developing a technology to assist in the identification of good feed stocks for the nation's ethanol industry. (Go to story) |
More coverage:
Backward-bending visible light (R&D magazine - January 2007)
Metamaterials Found To Work For Visible Light (ScienceDaily.com - Jan. 9, 2007) |