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Iowa State Physicists Among Teams Preparing for New Energy Department Supercomputer

A team of Iowa State University nuclear physicists is preparing to scale up its computer codes for Cori, the next-generation supercomputer being developed by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center.

Making Oxygen Before Life

UC Davis graduate student Zhou Lu, working with professors in the Departments of Chemistry and of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has shown that oxygen can be formed in one step by using a high energy vacuum ultraviolet laser to excite carbon dioxide.

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Researchers Get $5.25M to Advance Nuclear Technologies in S. Carolina

A team of environmental scientists and engineers from Clemson University, the University of South Carolina and South Carolina State University will use grant to make a direct positive impact on South Carolina in the advancement of monitoring, remediation and disposal of radioactive contaminants.

UW Fusion Reactor Concept Could Be Cheaper Than Coal

University of Washington engineers have designed a concept for a fusion reactor that, when scaled up to the size of a large electrical power plant, would rival costs for a new coal-fired plant with similar electrical output.

Stanford Engineers Help Describe Key Mechanism in Energy and Information Storage

Work could inform research that leads to longer-lasting batteries or higher-capacity memory devices.

Scientists Refine Formula for Nanotube Types

Rice University theorists determine factors that give tubes their chiral angles.

Deceptive-looking Vortex Line in Superfluid Led to Twice-mistaken Identity

University of Chicago physicists have shown that a group of scientists were incorrect when they concluded that a mysterious effect found in superfluids indicated the presence of solitons—exotic, solitary waves.

PPPL Scientists Take Key Step Toward Solving a Major Astrophysical Mystery

Understanding how reconnection transforms magnetic energy into explosive particle energy has been a major unsolved problem in plasma astrophysics.

IU Physics Team Receives $1.2 million to Help Build Most Precise Particle Detector

Team will help develop a new, highly precise particle detector that will be used to investigate the fundamental properties of elementary particles.

Phosphorus a Promising Semiconductor

Rice University physicists find
2-D form pays no heed to defects.

Goldilocks Principle Wrong for Particle Assembly: Too Hot & Too Cold is Just Right

New York University scientists discovery points to new ways to create “smart materials,” cutting-edge materials that adapt to their environment by taking new forms, and to sharpen the detail of 3D printing.

Three Bay Area Institutions Join Forces to Seed Transformative Brain Research

Six researchers from UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory sketched out their teams’ bold plans to jump-start new brain research.