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A Radar Gun For Unruly Atoms

A team of scientists at the University of Vermont have discovered a new use for X-rays at the atomic scale: using them like a radar gun to measure the motion and velocity of complex and messy groups of atoms.

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MIT Scientists Find Weird Quantum Effects, Even Over Hundreds of Miles

MIT physicists have found that subatomic particles called neutrinos can be in superposition, without individual identities, when traveling hundreds of miles, and not just at quantum, subatomic scales.

Becoming Crystal Clear

Using state-of-the-art theoretical methods, UCSB researchers have identified a specific type of defect in the atomic structure of a light-emitting diode (LED) that results in less efficient performance.

A Metal That Behaves Like Water

Researchers at Harvard University and Raytheon BBN Technology describe new behaviors and new ways to measure the revolutionary material graphene.

Gold Star: Seeking the Origin of Gold in the Universe

Michigan State University researchers, working with colleagues from Technical University Darmstadt in Germany, are zeroing in on the answer to one of science’s most puzzling questions: Where did heavy elements, such as gold, originate?

Physicists Use Electrons to Record More ‘Frames’ of Atomic Motion

By firing laser-triggered electrons fast enough to make one second seem like 150,000 years, physicists from UNL and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have advanced efforts to record the molecular reactions that drive countless chemical and biological processes.

A Movie of the Microworld: Physicists Create Nanoparticle Picture Series

Kansas State University physicists collaboratively have developed a method for taking X-ray images that show the explosion of superheated nanoparticles at the femtosecond level.

Perfecting a Viral Pack Mule

A new study at The Scripps Research Institute shows that a hollowed-out version of cowpea mosaic virus could be useful in human therapies.

Lehigh Scientists Extend the Reach of Single Crystals

Materials scientists and physicists at Lehigh have demonstrated a new method of making single crystals that could enable a wider range of materials to be used in microelectronics, solar energy devices and other high-technology applications.

Spinning Better Electronic Devices

A team of researchers, led by a group at the University of California, Riverside, have demonstrated for the first time the transmission of electrical signals through insulators in a sandwich-like structure, a development that could help create more energy efficient electronic devices.

VCU Study Marks Potential Breakthrough in Search for Better Lithium and Magnesium Ion Batteries

New Virginia Commonwealth University research demonstrates how to stabilize a multiply charged anion (negative ion), a fundamental research question and one that could help in the development of better lithium and magnesium ion batteries.

Engineering a Better Heat Pump

With help from the University of Delaware, Xergy Inc., a high-tech startup in Seaford, Delaware, recently announced an innovative refrigeration system based on an electrochemical compressor to replace the conventional mechanical vapor compression systems found in typical heat pump units.