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Award Finalists Demonstrate Improved Nuclear Physics Code for Supercomputing
André Walker-Loud, a staff scientist at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is co-leader of...
Nov 5, 20186 min read
New theory explains exotic form of ice found on alien worlds
A team of theorists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has solved a long-standing puzzle in the nucleation of a...
Oct 17, 20184 min read
Tracking hydrogen movement using subatomic particles
A muon is an unstable subatomic particle similar to an electron but with much greater mass. The lifetime of a muon is only a couple of...
Oct 8, 20182 min read
Scientists Studying Nuclear Spin Make a Surprising Discovery
The Science In proton-proton smashups, more neutrons scatter to the right than the left relative to the proton spin direction. That was...
Jun 18, 20183 min read
Wiggling atoms switch the electric polarization of crystals
Ferroelectric crystals display a macroscopic electric polarization, a superposition of many dipoles at the atomic scale which originate...
Apr 17, 20183 min read
Two-toned light pattern creates steep quantum walls for atoms
Exotic physics can happen when quantum particles come together and talk to each other. Understanding such processes is challenging for...
Apr 4, 20183 min read
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