Physical Sciences
Researchers have analyzed chemical residues in prehistoric Native American ceramic vessels that are believed to offer the earliest known evidence for black drink consumption.
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Rust – iron oxide – is a poor conductor of electricity, which is why an electronic device with a rusted battery usually won’t work...
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Jason Todd is in the business of solving puzzles—in the laboratory. As a manager of the liquid chromatography lab and co manager of the gas chromatography lab at Polymer Solutions Incorporated (PSI) in Blacksburg, Virginia, he’s continually solving chemical and material mysteries.
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Since the mid-20th century, the standard photodetector in high-energy physics has been the photomultiplier tube....
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New technique probes crucial magnetic effects in custom-grown nanoscale material.
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Berkeley Lab scientists and their colleagues have successfully probed the effects of light at the atomic scale by mixing x-ray and optical light waves at the Linac Coherent Light Source.
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Scientists measured a key effect of electron spin essential to engineering the next generation of high-performing digital devices.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory expertise in radiation detection and shielding is poised to help a national team of scientists better understand a mysterious region that can create hazardous space weather near our home planet.
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Small patches of ice could make up at most five to ten percent of material in walls of Shackleton crater.
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A team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has spotted sugar molecules in the gas surrounding a young Sun-like star.
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Berkeley Lab researchers make historic observation of rare Type 1a Supernova.
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Curiosity beams back strong, clear data from ‘scour’ area on Martian surface.
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