Harnessing the power of partnership See below . A Richland, Wash., company is customizing cosmic ray detectors, originally developed by DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the U.S. space program, in response to interest from several European airlines now required to characterize the types and amounts of cosmic radiation encountered during commercial flight. The detector simulates a human cell nucleus and records the energy deposited, and resulting tissue damage, as cosmic radiation passes through the body's cells. Themes represented by Bio-X are molecular and cellular structure and function, imaging of biological systems, tissue engineering, and computational biosciences. The educational and scientific benefits of Bio-X will be impressive, enhancing new relationships among the sciences.
Hyperons can be use as a probe to explore the behaviors of known nuclei.
Researchers in this experiment were eager to understand how hyperons behave around their more conventional sub-atomic kin. Close to 100 researchers from 14 institutions spread across five countries conducted the studies who will publish results in a year. Unlike the Hubble and NASA's upcoming Next Generation Space Telescope, which use traditional polished glass mirrors, the new concept uses a light-weight thin film that could be folded up and carried on a small booster rocket and opened to its full diameter in orbit. Evguenia Rainina Collaborations have been a mainstay in more than 30 years of scientific research for Evguenia Rainina, a senior research scientist at DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory . Her experience in working with other research institutions and scientists is paying off in her role as lead scientist in a few projects Pacific Northwest is pursuing under DOE's Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention.