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Gravitational wave observations combined with optical and gamma-ray data confirm earlier predictions, offer insights into how the galaxy produces lead, mercury, and other elements.
For one of the strongest known materials, calculations clarify a long-standing debate about how atoms pack together.
Theory predicts that bending a film will control spin direction and create a spin current for next-generation electronics.
Readily rotating molecules let electrons last, resulting in higher solar cell efficiency.
Novel spin-polarized surface states may guide the search for materials that host Majorana fermions, unusual particles that act as their own antimatter, and could revolutionize quantum computers.
Built from the bottom up, nanoribbons can be semiconducting, enabling broad electronic applications.
New materials could turn water into the fuel of the future.
New supercomputing capabilities help understand how to cope with large-scale instabilities in tokamaks.
Calculations of a subatomic particle called the sigma provide insight into the communication between subatomic particles deep inside the heart of matter.
Heating the core of fusion reactors causes them to develop sheared rotation that can improve plasma performance.
A new model identifies a high degree of fluctuations in the glue-like particles that bind quarks within protons as essential to explaining proton structure.
New method lets supercomputers model key details of greenhouse gases and molecules relevant to automobile combustion.
