Physical Sciences
NASA recently announced that astronomers have found a massive galaxy cluster with astounding and unexpected properties.
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A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has answered a key question concerning the widely-used Fenton reaction...
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In key step towards design of better organic electronic devices, Columbia Engineering team makes first single-molecule measurement of van der Waals interactions at a metal-organic interface.
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Experiments using heavy ions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are advancing understanding of the primordial universe.
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The BRAND Titrette® is the world’s first bottletop burette to provide titration within ASTM and ISO error limits for Class A glass burettes.
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Led by Berkeley Lab scientists, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s BOSS is bigger than all other spectroscopic surveys combined for measuring the universe’s large-scale structure.
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Curiosity rover's ChemCam sends digital ‘thumbs up.’
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Astronomers have constructed the largest-ever three-dimensional map of massive galaxies and distant black holes, which will help the investigation of the mysterious “dark matter” and “dark energy” that make up 96 percent of the universe.
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Perhaps no other material is generating as much excitement in the electronics world as graphene, sheets of pure carbon just one atom thick through which electrons can race at nearly the speed of light, 100 times faster than they move through silicon.
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The CMS upgrade is under way at CERN. With the help of several international collaborations, including Fermilab, the Compact Muon Solenoid detector should have a fourth layer of muon detection chambers installed by the start of 2014.
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Eight days before reaching Mars, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft performed a flight-path adjustment scheduled more than nine months ago.
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As Berkeley Lab’s laser plasma accelerator project BELLA nears completion, its drive laser has delivered one petawatt – a quadrillion watts – of peak power once each second, a world record for laser performance.
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