en-us Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:00 EDT http://www.ornl.gov/info/news/pulse/ DOE Pulse highlights work being done at the Department of Energy's national laboratories. DOE's laboratories house world-class facilities where more than 30,000 scientists and engineers perform cutting-edge research spanning DOE's science, energy, National security and environmental quality missions. webmaster@ornl.gov http://www.ornl.gov/info/news/pulse/ http://www.ornl.gov/ornlhome/rss/doe_pulse.gif Fri, 3 Jul 2009 22:00:00 EDT http://www.ornl.gov/info/news/pulse/ Dr. Fri, 3 Jul 2009 22:00:00 EDT http://www.ornl.gov/info/news/pulse/ Researchers at DOE's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a new medical diagnostic instrument to detect pneumothorax, a condition caused by air trapped in the space between the wall of the chest cavity and the lung.Full Story Latest Issues March 30, 2009 March 16, 2009 March 2, 2009 February 16, 2009 February 2, 2009 Janury 19, 2009 January 5, 2009 --> Smart robots help navigate smugglers' tunnels <img src="images/289_tunnel6_sm.jpg" alt="U.S. Fri, 3 Jul 2009 22:00:00 EDT http://www.ornl.gov/info/news/pulse/ Researchers at Instrument Development Lab (IDL), part of DOE???s Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, are designing lightweight aerosol monitors as part of a long-term study of the possible causes of childhood asthma. Fri, 3 Jul 2009 22:00:00 EDT http://www.ornl.gov/info/news/pulse/ By creating a bandgap in bilayer graphene, Feng Wang and his colleagues in the Materials Sciences Division at DOE???s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley have opened the way for practical electronic and photonic applications of this remarkable material. Full Story Lab researcher pushes new microelectronics technology Ushering in a novel method of microelectronic fabrication at Los Alamos National Laboratory is James Maxwell of Applied Electromagnetics.