Physical Sciences
Researchers trying to herd tiny particles into useful ordered formations have found an unlikely ally: entropy, a tendency generally described as "disorder."
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A recent review article describes groundbreaking discoveries that have emerged from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and synergies with the heavy-ion program at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Most people buy cornstarch to make custard or gravy, but Scott Waitukaitis and Heinrich Jaeger have used it to solve a longstanding physics problem with a substance known to generations of Dr. Seuss readers as “Oobleck."
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Massive explosions on the sun unleash radiation that could kill astronauts in space. Now, researchers have developed a warning system capable of forecasting the radiation from these violent solar storms nearly three hours (166 minutes) in advance.
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New technology promises brighter TV and computer displays
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The first artificial molecules whose chirality can be rapidly switched from a right-handed to a left-handed orientation with a beam of light have been created.
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Fifteen years of work by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) team paid off on July 5 with a historic record-breaking laser shot.
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Using a powerful scanning electron microscope at Idaho State University, ISU anthropologist and research scientist David Peterson is helping shed light on the making of gold by nomadic horsemen 4,000 years ago.
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New method has potential to advance materials measurement.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) scientist Richard Hughes discusses the basics of cryptography and quantum physics and the ways LANL researchers use them to address security challenges in an increasingly networked world.
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After receiving more than 700 applications, researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Cornell have selected six individuals -- including an alumnus who lives in Ithaca -- to make up the crew of a four-month simulated Mars mission.
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A team of scientists has created an “MRI” of the Sun’s interior plasma motions, shedding light on how it transfers heat from its deep interior to its surface.
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