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		<title>Study reveals dangers of nicotine in third-hand smoke</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicotine in third-hand smoke, the residue from tobacco smoke that clings to virtually all surfaces long after a cigarette has been extinguished, reacts with the common indoor air pollutant nitrous acid to produce dangerous carcinogens. This new potential health hazard was revealed in a multi-institutional study led by researchers with Berkeley Lab.]]></description>
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		<title>The expanding Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Madly Mapping the Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It takes special software to map the universe from noisy data. A Berkeley Lab code called MADmap does just that for the cosmic microwave background and has now been adapted by scientists probing the sky with the PACS camera aboard the Herschel satellite to make spectacular images of the infrared universe. ]]></description>
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		<title>Black Carbon a Significant Factor in Melting of Himalayan Glaciers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact that glaciers in the Himalayan mountains are thinning is not disputed. However, few researchers have attempted to rigorously examine and quantify the causes. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist Surabi Menon and her collaborators found that airborne black carbon aerosols, or soot, from India is a major contributor to the decline in snow and ice cover on the glaciers.]]></description>
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		<title>Microbes Produce Fuels Directly from Biomass</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers with the Joint BioEnergy Institute have developed a microbe that can produce an advanced biofuel fuel directly from biomass. Deploying the tools of synthetic biology, the JBEI researchers engineered a strain of E. coli bacteria to produce biodiesel and other important chemicals derived from fatty acids. JBEI is a DOE Bioenergy Research center led by Berkeley Lab.]]></description>
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		<title>Mismatched alloys are a good match for thermoelectrics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lcyarris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Using the supercomputers at NERSC, Berkeley Lab researchers demonstrated that the semiconductors known as highly mismatched alloys (HMAs) hold great promise for the future development of high performance thermoelectric devices. Thermoelectrics could play a key role in green energy production because of their ability to convert heat into electricity.

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		<title>Reaching for the Stars to Create Music of the Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if the light waves emitted by exploding stars could be translated into sound? That’s the idea behind a musical project to “sonify” the universe by Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart that caught the attention of Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist George Smoot.
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		<title>Cellular microenvironment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dankrotz</dc:creator>
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		<title>Brain protein critical to movement, memory, and learning deciphered at the Advanced Light Source</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The structure of a protein that helps relay electrical pulses between neurons has been fully mapped using the Advanced Light Source. This much-anticipated milestone could lead to new treatments for neurological diseases and a better understanding of how the nervous system works.]]></description>
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		<title>Weak Lensing Gains Strength</title>
		<link>http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2010/01/19/weak-lensing-gains-strength/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paulpreuss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley Lab cosmologists were part of an international team that has extended the relationship between the x-ray luminosity and the mass of galaxy clusters as measured by gravitational lensing, improving the reliability of mass measurements of much older, more distant, and smaller galactic structures. These refined measurements will benefit both the understanding of dark matter and the nature of dark energy as well. ]]></description>
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