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  • PHYSICISTS TEAM UP TO LEARN HOW QUANTUM MECHANICAL STATES BREAK DOWN
    03/20/2008

    AMES, Iowa –Researchers at the U. S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Microsoft Station Q have made significant advancements in understanding a fundamental problem of quantum mechanics – one that is blocking efforts to develop practical quantum computers with processing speeds far superior to conventional computers.  Their respective theoretical and experimental studies investigate how microscopic objects lose their quantum-mechanical properties through interactions with the environment.  The results of the researchers’ investigations were announced at the American Physical Society meeting held March 10-14 in New Orleans and also reported in Science Express, the advance online publication of the journal Science.

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  • AMES LABORATORY’S GSCHNEIDNER RECEIVES ACTA MATERIALIA GOLD MEDAL
    03/14/2008

    AMES, Iowa – Karl A. Gschneidner, Jr., senior metallurgist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, has been awarded the prestigious Acta Materialia Gold Medal, considered by many scientists and engineers to be the top award worldwide in the field of materials research. Gschneidner received the award during the 2008 annual meeting of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society in New Orleans, La. on March 11, 2008, where Ames Lab senior metallurgist Iver Anderson was honored also with a TMS Distinguished Scientist/Engineer award.

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  • AMES LABORATORY’S THOMPSON WINS EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING EFFORTS
    03/03/2008

    AMES, Iowa – R. Bruce Thompson, director of the Nondestructive Evaluation program at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, has won the Sustained Excellence Award from the American Society for Nondestructive Testing’s Research Council.

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  • AMES LABORATORY WORKSHOP CREATES TEACHER-EXPERTS IN HYDROGEN FUEL-CELL TECHNOLOGY
    02/25/2008

    AMES, Iowa – Seventeen middle school team representatives from 11 schools around Iowa converged on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory on Feb. 22 to learn about hydrogen fuel-cell technology and to build hydrogen fuel-cell model cars.

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  • AMES LAB SHOWS 3-D PHOTONIC CRYSTALS MAKE NOVEL ADD-DROP FILTERS
    02/12/2008

    AMES, Iowa – Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have come up with a potentially perfect way to sort and distribute the massive amounts of data that travel daily over optical fibers to people throughout the world. The new technology, a three-dimensional photonic crystal add-drop filter, promises greatly enhanced transmission of multiple wavelength channels (wavelengths of light) traveling along the same optical fiber. The innovative filter is a significant achievement in the effort to develop all-optical transport networks that would eliminate electrical components from optical transmission links and guarantee virtually flawless data reception to end users of the Internet and other fiber-based telecommunications systems.

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  • AMES LABORATORY/ISU SCIENCE BOWL RECEIVES DONATION FROM SAUER-DANFOSS
    02/11/2008

    AMES, Iowa – Sauer-Danfoss, Inc. of Ames presented a check for $1,000 to the 2008 Science Bowl program, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University. Matt Bendler, Human Resources director for the Americas Region, presented the check to Steve Karsjen, Ames Laboratory/ISU Science Bowl coordinator.

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  • AMES LABORATORY’S ANDERSON WINS TMS AWARD
    02/06/2008

    AMES, Iowa – Iver Anderson, senior metallurgist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, has been selected to receive the 2007 Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award by the Electronic, Magnetic & Photonic Materials Division of The Minerals, Metals, & Materials Society.

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  • CEDAR RAPIDS-MARION HOME SCHOOL WINS HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE BOWL
    01/26/2008

    AMES, Iowa – In only its second year of competition, a team of home schooled students from Cedar Rapids-Marion won the 18th annual Regional Science Bowl, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University, here Saturday. The Cedar Rapids-Marion team defeated Central Academy of Des Moines 48-42 in the championship match.

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  • STUDENTS FROM ACROSS STATE HEADED FOR SCIENCE BOWL
    01/22/2008

    AMES, Iowa – Forty-eight teams of students from 44 different high schools across Iowa will put their science knowledge to the test as they compete on Saturday, Jan. 26, in the 18th annual Regional Science Bowl, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University.

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  • AMES LABORATORY IS “BEEFING” UP MAGNETS FOR ELECTRIC-DRIVE CARS
    01/09/2008

    AMES, Iowa – Ask Iver Anderson at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory about consumer interest in and desire for “ultragreen” electric-drive vehicles, and he’ll reply without a moment’s hesitation that the trend is unstoppable and growing fast.

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