Scientists Estimate Solar Nebula's Lifetime
Scientists from MIT, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape – after analyzing angrites, which are some of the oldest and most pristine of planetary rocks.
Read more about Scientists Estimate Solar Nebula's LifetimeChemicals Hitch a Ride onto New Protein for Better Compounds
Chemists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a powerful new method of selectively linking chemicals to proteins, a major advance in the manipulation of biomolecules that could transform the way drugs are developed, proteins are probed, and molecules are tracked and imaged.
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For the first time, researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have built and trained machine learning algorithms to predict defect behavior in certain intermetallic compounds with high accuracy.
Read more about Machine Learning Accurately Predicts Metallic DefectsExploring the Matter that Filled the Early Universe
Quark Matter 2017 conference brings together nuclear physicists seeking to understand the force that binds the building blocks of visible matter.
Read more about Exploring the Matter that Filled the Early UniverseBianca Haberl: Finding the Joys of Science Under Pressure
Haberl, a researcher at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, focuses on compressing and transforming silicon and related elements into new materials and studying the transformed structures with neutron scattering at the Spallation Neutron Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility.
Read more about Bianca Haberl: Finding the Joys of Science Under PressureThe Shape of Melting in Two Dimensions
University of Michigan researchers carried out a series of hard particle simulations on the Titan supercomputer to study how particle shape affects the physics of melting in two-dimensional systems.
Read more about The Shape of Melting in Two DimensionsSLAC Study Helps Explain Why Uranium Persists in Groundwater at Former Mining Sites
A recent study led by scientists at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory helps describe how the contaminant cycles through the environment at former uranium mining sites and why it can be difficult to remove.
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Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) at the Molecular Foundry used one of the world’s most powerful electron microscopes to map the precise location and chemical type of 23,000 atoms in an extremely small particle made of iron and platinum.
Read more about Scientists Determine Precise 3-D Location and Identity of All 23,000 Atoms in a NanoparticleSimulations Reveal the Invisible Chaos of Superluminous Supernovae
To better understand the physical conditions that create superluminious supernova, astrophysicists are running two-dimensional (2D) simulations of these events using supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developed CASTRO code.
Read more about Simulations Reveal the Invisible Chaos of Superluminous SupernovaeResearchers Flip Script for Li-Ion Electrolytes to Simulate Better Batteries
A team led by the California Institute of Technology’s (Caltech’s) Thomas Miller used the Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to identify potential electrolyte materials and predict which ones could enhance the performance of lithium-ion batteries.
Read more about Researchers Flip Script for Li-Ion Electrolytes to Simulate Better BatteriesTaking Down a Giant: 699 Tons of SLAC’s Accelerator Removed for Upgrade
The western end of SLAC's historic linear accelerator has been stripped of all its equipment both above and below ground and will soon house a new, superconducting accelerator that will power LCLS-II, an upgrade to the lab's premier X-ray laser.
Read more about Taking Down a Giant: 699 Tons of SLAC’s Accelerator Removed for UpgradeVitamin B12: Power Broker to the Microbes
Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory report their findings about vitamin B12's importance to microbial communities, affecting energy and food production, the environment, human health, and many other processes.
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