Diamonds That Deliver
Neutrons, simulation analysis of tRNA-nanodiamond combo could transform drug delivery design principles.
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X-ray studies of meteorite samples planned at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source (ALS) will provide new insights about the microscopic makeup of an asteroid’s constituent material, and breakup of meteoroids in the atmosphere.
Read more about Getting to Know Meteors BetterADIOS Version 1.11 Moves I/O Framework from Research to Production
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced the latest release of its Adaptable I/O System (ADIOS), a middleware that speeds up scientific simulations on parallel computing resources such as the laboratory’s Titan supercomputer by making input/output operations more efficient.
Read more about ADIOS Version 1.11 Moves I/O Framework from Research to ProductionThe Global Reach of DUNE
DUNE — the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment — is a multinational effort to address the biggest questions in neutrino physics, currently the largest particle physics project being undertaken anywhere in the world, and hosted in the United States by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
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scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Advanced Light Source (ALS) are working on new X-ray-based tabletop experiments that simulate parachute fabric performance in the extreme conditions of other planets’ atmospheres in microscopic detail.
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X-rays reveal how simulated atmospheric entry conditions impact spacecraft shielding.
Read more about The Heat is OnThere and Back Again: Catalyst Mediates Energy-Efficient Proton Transport for Reversibility
Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that a complex with a proton pathway and stabilized by outer coordination sphere interactions is reversible for hydrogen production/oxidation at room temperature and pressure.
Read more about There and Back Again: Catalyst Mediates Energy-Efficient Proton Transport for ReversibilityResearchers Catch Extreme Waves with High-Resolution Modeling
Using decades of global climate data generated at a spatial resolution of about 25 kilometers squared, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) were able to capture the formation of tropical cyclones, also referred to as hurricanes and typhoons, and the extreme waves that they generate.
Read more about Researchers Catch Extreme Waves with High-Resolution ModelingArmy Researchers Use Neutrons to Study Ceramic Material as Possible Lightweight Vehicle Armor
The U.S. Army Research Lab and Australian Defence Science and Technology Group are collaborating to study ceramic materials for potential use in the design of military vehicle armor using neutrons at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s High Flux Isotope Reactor.
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Agricultural engineer Erin Webb studies biomass at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to understand how plants can be harvested, stored, processed, and transported to produce fuels or bio-derived materials for 3D printing.
Read more about Erin Webb: Exploring the Possibilities of a BioeconomyNext-Gen Dark Matter Detector in a Race to Finish Line
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, which will be built nearly a mile underground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in Lead, S.D., is considered one of the best bets yet to determine whether theorized dark matter particles known as WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) actually exist.
Read more about Next-Gen Dark Matter Detector in a Race to Finish LineNew Study of Ferroelectrics Offers Roadmap to Multivalued Logic for Neuromorphic Computing
A team of researchers from Argonne, the Lille University of Science and Technology and the University of Picardie Jules Verne have laid out a theoretical map to use ferroelectric material to process information using multivalued logic – a leap beyond the simple ones and zeroes that make up our current computing systems that could let us process information much more efficiently.
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