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Nanotechnologists Gain Powerful New Materials Probe

Nanotechnologists Gain Powerful New Materials Probe

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and The Johns Hopkins University have constructed a unique tool for exploring the properties of promising new materials with ...





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New method extracts neutrons from superfluid helium

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 21, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (33) | comments 0

“There are many applications for ultracold neutrons in fundamental physics,” Oliver Zimmer tells PhysOrg.com. “And we will find even more applications with a stronger source of ultracold neutrons.” Zimmer, a scientist at the ...


'Cold fusion' rebirth? New evidence for existence of controversial energy source

'Cold fusion' rebirth? New evidence for existence of controversial energy source

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (45) | comments 59

Researchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the process once called "cold fusion" that may promise a new source of energy. One group ...


Shielding for ambitious neutron experiment

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 24, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (16) | comments 0

In science fiction stories it is either the inexhaustible energy source of the future or a superweapon of galactic magnitude: antimaterial. In fact, antimaterial can neither be found on Earth nor in space, is extremely complex ...


Protons Pair Up With Neutrons

Protons Pair Up With Neutrons

Physics / General Physics

created May 29, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 6

Research performed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that protons are about 20 times more likely to pair up with neutrons than with other protons in ...


New NIST Detector Can 'See' Single Neutrons Over Broad Range

New detector can 'see' single neutrons over broad range

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 10, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have developed a new optical method that can detect individual neutrons and record them over a range ...


Not a Quirk But a Quark ... a Quark Star!

Not a Quirk But a Quark ... a Quark Star!

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 27, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (42) | comments 7

Astronomers recently announced that they have found a novel explanation for a rare type of super-luminous stellar explosion that may have produced a new type of object known as a quark star.


Moving MoNA During 2007 NSCL Reconfiguration

Nuclear physicists examine oxygen's limits

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 14, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (39) | comments 0

Physicists at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University have made a unique measurement of an exotic oxygen nucleus, leading scientists one step closer to deciphering ...


Argonne scientists reach milestone in accelerator upgrade project

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created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have successfully stopped and then reaccelerated a stable ion through a newly constructed charge-breeder, bringing the CAlifornium Rare Isotope ...


First neutrons created at the ISIS Second Target Station

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 04, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The UK's ISIS Second Target Station Project moved a major step closer to completion today when the first neutrons were created in the ISIS Second Target Station. After five years of planning and construction, the first neutrons ...


Toward limitless energy: National Ignition Facility focus of symposium, Aug. 19-20

Toward limitless energy: National Ignition Facility focus of ACS symposium (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (19) | comments 14

Chemists are preparing to play an important but often unheralded role in determining the success of one of the largest and most important scientific experiments in history — next year's initial attempts at ...



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