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Shaping the Future of Nanocrystals
Berkeley Lab researchers obtain first direct observation of facet formation in nanocubes.
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X-ray Laser Probes Tiny Quantum Tornadoes in Superfluid Droplets
SLAC experiment reveals mysterious order in liquid helium.
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Water Leads to Chemical that Gunks Up Biofuels Production
A study at Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) shows water trips up key chemical reactions that turn plants into fuels, provides scientific principles that can speed up biofuel development.
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New Project is the ACME of Addressing Climate Change
High performance computing (HPC) will be used to develop and apply the most complete climate and Earth system model to address the most challenging and demanding climate change issues.
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Bacterial Nanowires Not What Scientists Thought They Were
A team led by scientists at USC has now turned the study of these bacterial nanowires on its head, discovering that the key features in question are not pili, as previously believed, but rather extensions of the bacteria’s outer membrane equipped with proteins that transfer electrons called “cytochromes.”
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NMR Using Earth’s Magnetic Field
Berkeley Lab researchers demonstrate ultra low-field nuclear magnetic resonance with an optical magnetometer.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Researchers Working on Smaller, Faster Chip
Computer chips are getting smaller and faster, but not without some serious scientific research happening high on a hill in Berkeley.
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Bionic Liquids from Lignin
New results from the Joint BioEnergy Institute pave the way for closed loop biofuel refineries.
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First Indirect Evidence of So-Far Undetected Strange Baryons
"Invisible" particles containing at least one strange quark lower the temperature at which other particles "freeze out" from quark-gluon plasma.
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Promising Ferroelectric Materials Suffer From Unexpected Electric Polarizations
Brookhaven Lab scientists find surprising locked charge polarizations that impede performance in next-gen materials that could otherwise revolutionize data-driven devices.
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Dark Energy Survey kicks Off Second Season Cataloging the Wonders of Deep Space
With its second year under way, the DES team posts highlights and prepares to release images from its first year.
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Mysteries of Space Dust Revealed
Berkeley Lab researchers help give a first look at suspected extra-solar particles.
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