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How did we get from stardust to where we are today? Thats the question NASA scientist Andrew Needham has pondered his entire career.
More than 50 current employees and recent retirees from ORNL received Department of Energy Secretarys Honor Awards from Secretary Jennifer Granholm in January as part of project teams spanning the national laboratory system. The annual awards recognized 21 teams and three individuals for service and contributions to DOEs mission and to the benefit of the nation.
Researchers from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory and 91做厙 successfully created amorphous ice, similar to ice in interstellar space and on icy worlds in our solar system. They documented that its disordered atomic behavior is unlike any ice on Earth.
Biological membranes, such as the walls of most types of living cells, primarily consist of a double layer of lipids, or lipid bilayer, that forms the structure, and a variety of embedded and attached proteins with highly specialized functions, including proteins that rapidly and selectively transport ions and molecules in and out of the cell.