Physical Sciences
In a key discovery, a team of LLNL researchers has developed the first plastic material capable of efficiently distinguishing neutrons from gamma rays, something not thought possible for the past five decades or so.
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Los Alamos scientists detect and track single molecules with nanoscale carbon cylinders.
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Engineers Make ‘Building Blocks of Chemical Industry’ From Wood While Boosting Production 40 Percent
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The prospect of electronics at the nanoscale may be even more promising with the first observation of metallic conductance in ferroelectric nanodomains by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Working with an international team, three physicists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have helped to demonstrate the feasibility of a new kind of particle accelerator.
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In movie magic, people and objects can appear or disappear or move from place to place in an instant. Now, Cornell researchers have demonstrated a similar "temporal cloak" -- albeit on a very small scale.
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Berkeley Lab scientists push chemistry to the edge, testing plans for a new generation of light sources.
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Scientists have taken a crucial step toward describing thermonuclear reactions from first principles.
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Electronics are getting smaller and smaller, flirting with new devices at the atomic scale. However, many scientists predict that the shrinking of our technology is reaching an end.
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An advance in sensor design* by researchers at NIST and the University of Waterloo's Institute of Quantum Computing (IQC) could unshackle a powerful, yet high-maintenance technique for exploring materials.
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Microscopic spheres form strings in surprising alignments when suspended in a viscous fluid and sheared between two plates — a finding that will affect the way scientists think about the properties of a wide variety of substances.
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The exhaustive reference system and interactive toolkit could revolutionize materials research, potentially enabling new types of manufacturing.
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