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Lead-on-Silicon Growth Over Time

Nanoscale materials grow with the flow (Videos)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Imagine unloading a pile of bricks onto the ground and watching the bricks assemble themselves into a level, straight wall in only a few minutes. While merely a fantasy for builders in the everyday world, ...





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Iron-arsenic superconductors in class of their own

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 5

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have experimentally demonstrated that the superconductivity mechanism in the recently-discovered iron-arsenide superconductors is unique compared to all other ...


New vitamin K analysis supports the triage theory

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

An important analysis conducted by Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute scientists suggests the importance of ensuring optimal dietary intakes of vitamin K to prevent age-related conditions such as bone fragility, ...


Mimicking bacteria to produce magnetic nanoparticles

Researchers mimic bacteria to produce magnetic nanoparticles

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 14, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 0

When it comes to designing something, it’s hard to find a better source of inspiration than Mother Nature. Using that principle, a diverse, interdisciplinary group of researchers at the U.S. Department of ...


Ames Laboratory scientist using low-gravity space station lab to study crystal growth

Scientists use low-gravity space station lab to study crystal growth

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 1

A research project 10 years in the making is now orbiting the Earth, much to the delight of its creator Rohit Trivedi, a senior metallurgist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory. Equipment recently ...


Research brings quantum computing closer to reality

Physicists Bring Quantum Computing Closer to Reality

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 20, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (42) | comments 3

Researchers at the U. S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Microsoft Station Q have made significant advancements in understanding a fundamental problem ...


3-D photonic crystals make novel add-drop filters

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 18, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have come up with a potentially perfect way to sort and distribute the massive amounts of data that travel daily over optical fibers to people throughout the ...


A supra new kind of froth

A 'supra' new kind of froth

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 05, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 6

To see the latest science of type-I superconductors, look no further than the froth on a morning cup of cappuccino. A team of U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory physicists and collaborating students ...


Award presented to Iowa State scientists

Technology / Software

created Jul 19, 2006 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Software that helps engineers solve problems has won national recognition for a team of Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory scientists.


Yttrium-Iron-Zinc Crystal

Physicists tweak zinc to get many model compounds

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 18, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (30) | comments 0

Try as they might, ancient alchemists could never turn lead into gold. Neither can the members of the Novel Materials group at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory. But these physicists do have ...


Magnetic Alloy Powder

Ames Laboratory beefing up magnets for electric-drive cars

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 09, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 2

Ask Iver Anderson at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory about consumer interest in and desire for “ultragreen” electric-drive vehicles, and he’ll reply without a moment’s hesitation that the trend ...



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