U.S.-China Collaboration Makes Excellent Start in Optimizing Lithium to Control Fusion Plasmas
A collaboration of researchers have recently shown lithium, a soft, silver-white metal, to be effective in both respects during path-setting U.S.-Chinese experiments on the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in Hefei, China.
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Researchers Find a Surprise Just Beneath the Surface in Carbon Dioxide Experiment
An X-ray technique at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), coupled with theoretical work by a team at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (Caltech), revealed how oxygen atoms embedded very near the surface of a copper sample had a more dramatic effect on the early stages of the reaction with carbon dioxide than earlier theories could account for.
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Uncovered: 1000 New Microbial Genomes
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, have reported the release of 1,003 phylogenetically diverse bacterial and archaeal reference genomes—the single largest release to date.
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Tackling infectious disease — one protein at a time
A team of researchers, including a Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientist, used the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory to help solve 1,000 protein structures.
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Simulations Pinpoint Atomic-level Defects in Solar Cell Nanostructures
A team of researchers used Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center to find the root cause of defects in two commonly used semiconductor materials provide design rules to avoid them.
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Neutrons Zero in on the Elusive Magnetic Majorana Fermion
A research team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has confirmed magnetic signatures likely related to Majorana fermions—elusive particles that could be the basis for a quantum bit, or qubit, in a two-dimensional graphene-like material, alpha-ruthenium trichloride.
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X-ray Study Reveals Way to Control Molecular Vibrations that Transmit Heat
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new way to track dynamic molecular features in soft materials, including the high-frequency molecular vibrations that transmit waves of heat, sound, and other forms of energy.
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Researchers Seek Sigma Meson on the Path to Heavier Hadrons
A team of computational researchers, led by Jefferson Lab’s Robert Edwards, has been using the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility in studies confirming the existence of exotic mesons and increasing our understanding of the standard model of particle physics.
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Follow the Fantastic Voyage of the ICARUS Neutrino Detector
The world’s largest particle hunter of its kind will travel across the ocean from CERN to Fermilab this summer to become an integral part of neutrino research in the United States.
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Surprising Stripes in a "Bad Metal" Offer Clues to High-Temperature Superconductivity
Using the Spallation Neutron Source at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, scientists have measured subtle electronic fluctuations that could help pinpoint the mechanism behind high-temperature superconductors
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SLAC X-ray Beam Helps Uncover Blueprint for Lassa Virus Vaccine
A decade-long search ends at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, where researchers from The Scripps Research Institute emerge with a clear picture of how the deadly Lassa virus enters human cells.
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Scientists Design Molecular System for Artificial Photosynthesis
Researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have designed a system to mimic key functions of the photosynthetic center in green plants to convert solar energy into chemical energy.
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