Physics
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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New technology promises brighter TV and computer displays
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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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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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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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In a new report on the current status and future of nuclear physics, the National Research Council (NRC) highlights the “spectacular” performance and critical future role of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Experiments observe a new particle in the mass region around 125-126 GeV.
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In an international scientific breakthrough, a Griffith University research team has been able to photograph the shadow of a single atom for the first time.
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CERN1 will hold a scientific seminar at 9:00CEST on 4 July to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson.
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Sandia seeks commercialization partners for promising “spectral shape discrimination” technology.
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