Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
For almost half a century, scientists have struggled with
plutonium contamination spreading further in groundwater than expected,
increasing the risk of sickness in humans and animals.
It was known...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
Superinsulation may sound like a marketing gimmick for a
drafty attic or winter coat. But it is actually a newly discovered fundamental
state of matter created by scientists at the
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
The structure and behavior of one of the most common proteins in our bodies
has been resolved at a level of detail never before seen, thanks to new research
performed at the
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
X-rays have been used for decades to take pictures of broken bones, but
scientists at the U.S. Department of
Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory
and their collaborators have...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
Standard microscopy and visible light imaging techniques cannot peer into the
dark and murky centers of dense-liquid jets, which has hindered scientists in
their quest for a full understanding of liquid breakup in devices such as
automobile...
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Location: Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory, Uruguay
Scientists have discovered that the magnetic strength of magnetite—the most
abundant magnetic mineral on Earth—declines drastically when put under
pressure. Researchers from the Carnegie...
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Location: National Center for Electron Microscopy, Department of Energy, United States
TEAM 0.5, the world's most powerful transmission electron microscope —
capable of producing images with half-angstrom resolution (half a ten-billionth
of a meter), less than the diameter of a single
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Location: Brookhaven National Laboratory, DOE, United States
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven
National Laboratory have shown that in a class of materials called
manganites, the electronic behavior at the surface is considerably different...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, Department of Energy, United States
Breakthrough astrophysics research may have established the hitherto
mysterious source of exceptionally high-energy cosmic ray emissions, according
to recently published research that culminates a project developed by a
scientist at the
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Location: University of Chicago, United States
Streams of granular particles bouncing off a target in a simple tabletop experiment produce liquid-like behavior also witnessed in a massive research apparatus that simulates the birth of the universe. A team led by the
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Location: University of Pennsylvania, United States
Scientists may be one step closer to understanding the atomic forces that cause friction, thanks to a recently published study by researchers from the
University of Pennsylvania, the
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory,9700 S. Cass Avenue,Argonne, IL 60439.,Phone: 630/252-2000, United States
In recent years, Americans have been intrigued by the promise of
hydrogen-powered vehicles. But experts have judged that several technology
problems must be resolved before they are more than a novelty.Recently,
scientists at the U.S....
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Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, United States
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have identified a new technique for cleansing contaminated water and potentially purifying hydrogen for use in fuel cells, thanks to the discovery of a innovative type of...
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Location: The James Franck Institute ,Center for Integrative Science, E2The University of Chicago ,, 929 East 57th. St. Chicago, IL 60637, United States
Tightly packed molecules lend unexpected strength to nanothin sheet of material
Scientists at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have discovered the surprising strength of a sheet of nanoparticles that measures just...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory,9700 S. Cass Avenue,Argonne, IL 60439.,Phone: 630/252-2000, United States
Researchers at
the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of
Notre Dame have successfully applied X-ray scattering techniques to determine
how dissolved metal ions interact in solution.These findings will help...
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Location: NIST-Boulder, MS 104.00, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colo. 80305-3328, United States
Using
a brace of the most modern tools of materials research, a team from the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Northwestern University has
shed new light on one of...
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