Physical Sciences
Engineers have been up to the task of electronics miniaturization for decades now, and the principle that the computer industry will be able to do it on a regular schedule – as codified in Moore’s Law – won’t come into doubt any time soon, thanks to researchers like the University of South Carolina’s Chuanbing Tang.
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New 2-D optical phased array technology to enable advanced LADAR, other defense applications.
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New approach using nanoparticle alloys allows heat to be focused or reflected just like electromagnetic waves.
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Scientists are reporting development of chemical modules that can reproduce, on an “unprecedented” molecular level, changes and interactions that occur in natural populations of plants and animals.
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Galaxies have a voracious appetite for fuel — in this case, fresh gas — but astronomers have had difficulty finding the pristine gas that should be falling onto galaxies.
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An international collaboration including researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has discovered that the Earth's core formed under more oxidizing condition's than previously proposed.
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Lab will seek innovative solutions that protect America’s clean energy manufacturers from supply disruptions.
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New fabrication method could advance technologies ranging from medical imaging devices to grid-scale energy storage.
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Berkeley Lab-based Supernova Cosmology Project uses Hubble Space Telescope data to discover the most distant well-measured Type Ia supernova ever found.
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In science, just like in life, sometimes creating the most effective organization depends on being able to handle just a bit of chaos first.
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Communicating with light may soon get a lot easier, hints recent research* from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland's Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), where scientists have potentially found a way to overcome a longstanding barrier to cleaner signals.
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Technologically valuable ultrastable glasses can be produced in days or hours with properties corresponding to those that have been aged for thousands of years, computational and laboratory studies have confirmed.
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