Physics
NIST researchers have created a circuit on a chip that can create and manipulate different quantum states.
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After quake, ORNL helps Japanese neutron scientists continue experiments In addition to donating $20,000 to aid in the Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief efforts, Oak Ridge National Laboratory is helping displaced Japanese colleagues in neutr
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A newly announced NASA mission to collect a sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth will include an instrument built at...
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A local supernova factory has recently started production, according to a wealth of new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory on the Carina Nebula. This discovery may help...
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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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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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Last week, a stream of highly unusual ions shot through a tiny nozzle at 76 million miles per hour—and CARIBU, a facility designed to study special nuclei normally only created in stars, officially opened for business...
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Massive stars are inherently violent creatures-they burn, they churn, they turn, all the while creating and held hostage by constantly changing magnetic fields of almost unfathomable strength...
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Researchers Have Discovered the First Direct Evidence for a Superfluid at the Core of a Neutron Star
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Strings conference held in Sweden for the first time this summer. Leading theoretical physicists, including Stephen Hawking and Brian Greene will be in attendance.
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NASA’s Stardust spacecraft, equipped with the University of Chicago’s Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFMI), is hurtling at more than 24,000 miles an hour toward a Valentine’s Day encounter with comet Tempel 1.
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