Physical Sciences
As Star Trek is so fond of reminding us, we’re carbon-based life forms. But the event that jump-started the universe, the Big Bang...
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Two Baylor University chemistry professors have invented a new polarimeter, a basic scientific instrument used to measure and...
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Nanoparticles of silver are being found increasingly in the environment—and in environmental science laboratories...
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Imagine an insect repellant that not only is thousands of times more effective than DEET – the active ingredient in most commercial...
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The mystery behind a detection method that can sense the presence of individual molecules–useful for researchers analyzing...
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For at least 20 years, organic chemists and materials scientists have used microwaves as an alternative energy source to activate...
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shown that the electronic properties of two layers...
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Berkeley Lab Researchers Find Plasmonic Resonances in Semiconductor Nanocrystals With its promise of superfast computers and...
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Scientists at Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry have pioneered a new chemical mapping method that provides unprecedented insight into materials at the nanoscale...
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Researchers from Northwestern University and Argonne Lab now know more about common freshwater alga's ability to remove strontium from water
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NASA's Swift satellite, Hubble Space Telescope, and Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to study one of the most puzzling cosmic blasts ever observed. More than a week later, high-energy radiation continues to brighten and fade...
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Even as royalty set diamonds into crowns and rings, engineers lusted after the gems for different reasons: diamonds are stronger than any other natural material and are excellent electrical insulators and heat conductors...
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