Physics
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers and scientists from the French space institute IRAP are poised to begin focusing the energy of a million light bulbs on the surface of the Red Planet to help determine whether Mars was or is habitable.
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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which is scheduled to launch this week, has the potential to be the most productive Mars surface mission in history. That's due in part to its nuclear heat and power source.
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Research by Los Alamos scientists published today (Nov. 9) in the journal Nature documents significant progress in understanding the phenomenon of quantum-dot blinking.
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Sandia National Laboratory's Annular Core Research Reactor (ACRR) recently conducted its 10,000th operation.
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The Daya Bay Neutrino Project, with research teams from all over the world, is primed to measure the last piece of the neutrino puzzle.
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Researchers have developed a compact laser frequency comb,a step toward user-friendly and ultimately chip-based combs.
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Cornell scientists have surpassed two major points toward proving the technology of a novel, exceedingly powerful X-ray source.
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Researchers have measured the spatial and temporal coherence of a single femtosecond X-ray pulse generated by the first hard XFEL.
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Physicists have published a fully self-consistent theory of the new kind of superconducting behavior, Type 1.5.
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Researchers recently used the Omega Laser Facility to make precise measurements of a fundamental nuclear process.
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Astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe."
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Unlike massless photon-like quasiparticles in single-layer graphene, these new quasiparticles have mass.
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