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University of Alabama Researchers to Embark on New Search for Mysterious Dark Matter
Three University of Alabama physicists are among dozens of researchers planning and developing a new international search for dark matter – invisible material scientists believe makes up roughly 27 percent of the universe’s mass.
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Rubber Meets the Road With New ORNL Carbon, Battery Technologies
Recycled tires could see new life in lithium-ion batteries that provide power to plug-in electric vehicles and store energy produced by wind and solar, say researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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A Collaboration of Researchers Using Argonne Lab’s Advanced Photon Source Explain Why Some Liquids are ‘Fragile’ and Others are ‘Strong’
‘Fragility’ provides a clue to the mystery of what happens when a liquid turns into a glass.
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Scientists Craft Atomically Seamless, Thinnest-possible Semiconductor Junctions
University of Washington scientists have developed what they believe is the thinnest-possible semiconductor, a new class of nanoscale materials made in sheets only three atoms thick.
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Iron is the Key to Preserving Dinosaur Soft Tissue
Researchers at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS) are studying organic material from dinosaur bones and have been able to show that the organic material in the samples contained original soft tissue material from Mesozoic dinosaurs.
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Competition for Graphene
Berkeley Lab researchers demonstrate ultrafast charge transfer in new family of 2D semiconductors.
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Do We Live in a 2-D Hologram?
New Fermilab experiment will test the nature of the universe.
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Scientists Develop Water Splitter that Runs on Ordinary AAA Battery
Scientists at Stanford University, working with collaborators at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Canadian Light Source Inc. and the University of Tennessee, have developed a low-cost, emissions-free device that efficiently splits liquid water into hydrogen and oxygen gas.
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Catalytic Gold Nanoclusters Promise Rich Chemical Yields
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Carnegie Mellon scientists make stable, active catalysts.
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Signatures of Selection Inscribed on Poplar Genomes
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), and Stephen DiFazio of West Virginia University, used a combination of genome-wide selection scans and analyses to understand the processes involved in shaping the genetic variation of natural poplar (Populus trichocarpa) populations.
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Hot-spring Bacteria Reveal Ability to Use Far-red Light for Photosynthesis
Bacteria growing in far-red light use a previously unknown process for harvesting energy and producing oxygen from sunlight, a research team led by a Penn State scientist has discovered.
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ORNL Scientists Uncover Clues to Role of Magnetism in Iron-based Superconductors
New measurements of atomic-scale magnetic behavior in iron-based superconductors by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vanderbilt University are challenging conventional wisdom about superconductivity and magnetism.
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