News tagged with national laboratory
Magnetism and Superconductivity Observed to Exist in Harmony
Aug 28, 2008 |
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(Physorg.com) -- Physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, along with colleagues at institutions in Switzerland and Canada, have observed, for the first time in a single exotic phase, a situation where magnetism and superconductivity ...
World's largest laser gears up for ignition experiments
Mar 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Construction of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world's largest and highest-energy laser system, was essentially completed on Feb. 26, when technicians at Lawrence Livermore National ...
Turning sunlight into liquid fuels (Video)
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For millions of years, green plants have employed photosynthesis to capture energy from sunlight and convert it into electrochemical energy. A goal of scientists has been to develop an artificial ...
Giant Furnace Opens to Reveal 'Perfect' LSST Mirror Blank
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The single-piece primary and tertiary mirror blank cast for the LSST is "perfect", say project astronomers and engineers.
Scientists prove unconventional superconductivity in new iron arsenide compounds
Jan 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory used inelastic neutron scattering to show that superconductivity in a new family of iron arsenide superconductors cannot ...
Visualizing atomic-scale acoustic wavesin nanostructures
Jul 03, 2008 |
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Acoustic waves play many everyday roles - from communication between people to ultrasound imaging. Now the highest frequency acoustic waves in materials, with nearly atomic-scale wavelengths, promise to be ...
Research Highlights Potential for Improved Solar Cells
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Los Alamos researchers led by Victor Klimov has shown that carrier multiplication—when a photon creates multiple electrons—is a real phenomenon in tiny semiconductor crystals and not a false observation ...
New bottle cap thwarts wine counterfeiters
Aug 04, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When the Roman historian Pliny the Elder wrote " in vino veritas " – in wine, there is truth – he must not have been drinking from a counterfeit bottle. Researchers Roger Johnston and Jon ...
Plasmonic whispering gallery microcavity paves the way to future nanolasers
Jan 24, 2009 |
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The principle behind whispering galleries - where words spoken softly beneath a domed ceiling or in a vault can be clearly heard on the opposite side of the chamber - has been used to achieve what could prove ...
Researchers discover a potential on-off switch for nanoelectronics
Mar 03, 2009 |
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As electronic circuits shrink from finely etched lines in silicon wafers to nearly elusive proportions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Columbia University ...
Helium rains inside Jovian planets
Jan 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Models of how Saturn and Jupiter formed may soon take on a different look.
Los Alamos researchers create 'map of science'
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have produced the world's first Map of Science—a high-resolution graphic depiction of the virtual trails scientists leave behind when they retrieve ...
Shocking: Environmental chemistry affects ferroelectric film polarity the same way electric voltage does
Feb 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “Ferroelectric materials are interesting scientifically, and, while they are used for some things now, they are potentially useful for even more applications in the future,” Brian Stephenson tells PhysOrg.com. Stephe ...
New Catalyst Paves the Path for Ethanol-Powered Fuel Cells
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Delaware and Yeshiva University, has ...
Scientists Identify Bacteria That Increase Plant Growth
Biology /
Jan 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Through work originally designed to remove contaminants from soil, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and their Belgium colleagues at Hasselt University ...
