Sugar Hitches a Ride on Organic Sea Spray
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Montana State University, and Los Alamos National Laboratory found this "sticky" strategy not only shields these molecules from their soluble nature, it explains the discrepancies between models that predict sea spray's organic enrichment and the actual measurements of sea spray aerosol composition.
Read more about Sugar Hitches a Ride on Organic Sea SprayBig PanDA Tackles Big Data for Physics and Other Future Extreme Scale Scientific Applications
Physicists tap into pockets of available time on a supercomputer to crunch data for the world's most powerful particle collider, demonstrating a new tool for making efficient use of limited, expensive computational resources.
Read more about Big PanDA Tackles Big Data for Physics and Other Future Extreme Scale Scientific ApplicationsExpanding the Stable of Workhorse Yeasts
New genome sequences target next generation of yeasts with improved biotech uses.
Read more about Expanding the Stable of Workhorse YeastsSimulations By PPPL Physicists Suggest That External Magnetic Fields Can Calm Plasma Instabilities
Physicists led by Gerrit Kramer at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have conducted simulations that suggest that applying magnetic fields to fusion plasmas can control instabilities known as Alfvén waves that can reduce the efficiency of fusion reactions.
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Plopped into water, a tiny device triggers the formation of chemicals that kill microbes in minutes.
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Images reveal battery materials' chemical reactions in five dimensions – 3D space plus time and energy.
Read more about Slicing Through Materials with a New X-ray Imaging TechniqueNew Material Discovery Allows Study of Elusive Weyl Fermion
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory have discovered a new type of Weyl semimetal, a material that opens the way for further study of Weyl fermions, a type of massless elementary particle hypothesized by high-energy particle theory and potentially useful for creating high-speed electronic circuits and quantum computers.
Read more about New Material Discovery Allows Study of Elusive Weyl Fermion3-D Galaxy-Mapping Project Enters Construction Phase
The latest DOE approval step, known as Critical Decision 3, triggers spending for major components of the project, including the remainder of the 5,000 finger-width, 10-inch-long cylindrical robots that will precisely point the fiber-optic cables to gather the light from a chosen set of galaxies, stars, and brilliant objects called quasars.
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NOvA scientists have seen evidence that one of the three neutrino mass states might not include equal parts of muon and tau flavor, as previously thought. Scientists refer to this as “nonmaximal mixing,” and NOvA’s preliminary result is the first hint that this may be the case for the third mass state.
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Large Hadron Collider (LHC) performance surpasses expectations; results confirm the Higgs particle, show "bump" appears to be a statistical fluctuation, and offer insight into quark-gluon plasma at high energies complementary to those explored at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).
Read more about New Results on the Higgs Boson and the Building Blocks of Matter Presented at ICHEPResearchers Combine Simulation, Experiment for Nanoscale 3-D Printing
A team at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with the University of Tennessee and the Graz University of Technology, has developed a powerful simulation-guided drafting process to improve FEBID and introduce new possibilities in nanomanufacturing.
Read more about Researchers Combine Simulation, Experiment for Nanoscale 3-D PrintingSmarter Self-Assembly Opens New Pathways for Nanotechnology
Brookhaven Lab scientists discover a way to create billionth-of-a-meter structures that snap together in complex patterns with unprecedented efficiency.
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