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Built with detector technologies used in nuclear physics experiments, the system monitors radiation treatments in hard-to-reach areas.
Penetrating X-ray mapping technique measures atomic character of crack propagation, which could lead to tougher metals.
A new path is identified to keep lithium in its place during battery discharge, benefitting efforts to design better energy storage options.
The Dark Energy Survey has delivered dark energy constraints combining information from four of its primary cosmological probes for the first time, an approach that may help design other experiments into cosmic acceleration.
Read more about Survey Delivers on Dark Energy with Multiple Probes
The recently observed “fingerprints” of a neutron-rich isotope suggest an unexpected change in nuclear structure, possibly pointing to physics missing from atomic models.
Expanding our understanding of the structure and decay properties of some of the most exotic elements.
Read more about Building a Scale to Weigh Superheavy Elements
Models use a fraction of the computational cost of today’s best atom-based water models.
Supercomputer use offers insights into how to best describe the nature of our universe.
Discovery of novel polymers with extreme stretching, vibration suppression, and self-healing.
Pairs of sub-atomic particles may catalyze reactions that happened moments after the Big Bang.
Ground water microbes living outside a contaminated area contain mobile genetic elements that provide them resistance to heavy metals.
Supercomputer validates mathematical approach for describing geological features.
