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Visual assistance for cosmic blind spots

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A bit of imagination on the part of a measuring instrument wouldn't be a bad thing. It could help to add data from areas where the instrument is unable to measure. However, it must do so constructively. In ...

Predicting the fate of underground carbon

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A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a new modeling methodology for determining the capacity and assessing the risks of leakage of potential underground carbon-dioxide reservoirs.

Large Hadron Collider sends beams in 2 directions

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3 hours ago | 5 / 5 (4) | 1

(AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher made another leap forward Monday by circulating beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time in the $10 billion machine after more than a year of repairs, ...

Giant atom-smasher set to restart this weekend: CERN

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Nov 20, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (7) | 8

The world's biggest atom-smasher, which was shut down soon after its inauguration amid technical faults, is set to restart this weekend, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said on Friday.

CERN atom-smasher restarts after 14-month hiatus: official

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Nov 20, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (23) | 0

The world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, restarted on Friday, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said.

Ultra-Powerful Laser Reproduces How Star's Jets Travel through Interstellar Space

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Nov 20, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (8) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A multi-trillion-watt laser at the University of Rochester has simulated a stellar jet -- an outpouring of matter from a fledgling star -- with unprecedented realism.

Tapering a Free-Electron Laser to Extract More Juice

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Nov 20, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the NSLS and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) have demonstrated a technique that could be used to significantly improve the quantity and quality of light ...

Doubts raised on nuclear industry viability

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Nov 19, 2009 | 3.1 / 5 (21) | 19

(PhysOrg.com) -- The investment in nuclear power has been growing around the world over the last few years, being viewed as a means for countries to control their energy security, avoid the price fluctuations ...

Proton's party pals may alter its internal structure

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Nov 18, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (20) | 9

A recent experiment at the DOE's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that a proton's nearest neighbors in the nucleus of the atom may modify the proton's internal structure.

Turning heat to electricity... efficiently

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Nov 18, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (59) | 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- In everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric powerplants, the need to get rid of excess heat creates a major source of inefficiency. But new research points the way ...

Crashing the size barrier

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Nov 18, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (14) | 6

Like surfers on monster waves, electrons can ride waves of plasma to very high energies in a very short distance. Scientists have proven that plasma acceleration works. Now they're developing it as a way to ...

Novel connector uses magnets for leak-free microfluidic devices

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Nov 18, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0

Like other users of microfluidic systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology researcher Javier Atencia was faced with an annoying engineering problem: how to simply, reliably and most of all, tightly, ...

Stimulus grant will improve physics arXiv

Physics / General Physics

Nov 18, 2009 | 4 / 5 (3) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stimulus funding will enhance Cornell's e-print arXiv of scientific papers to help users identify a work's main concepts, see research reports in context and easily find related work.

Researchers Find Innate Correlations Among Different Power Law Phenomena

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Nov 17, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (18) | 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- Studying the patterns that emerge in natural and social phenomena is a popular area of research, although usually individual phenomena are studied separately from each other. In a recent study, ...

LHC nears restart after repairs

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Nov 17, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (16) | 3

The European Organization for Nuclear Research says it expects to restart the world's largest atom smasher by this weekend after more than a year of repairs.

Spotting evidence of directed percolation

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Nov 17, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

A team of physicists has, for the first time, seen convincing experimental evidence for directed percolation, a phenomenon that turns up in computer models of the ways diseases spread through a population ...

Engineer Discovers Why Particles Like Flour Disperse on Liquids

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Nov 16, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (15) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Even if you are not a cook, you might have wondered why a pinch of flour (or any small particles) thrown into a bowl of water will disperse in a dramatic fashion, radiating outward as if it ...

Measuring Electron Orbitals

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Nov 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (7) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, it has been possible to measure electron density in individual molecular states using what is known as the photoelectric effect. Now published in Science, this method repres ...