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UCR team creates “quantum composites” for various electrical and optical innovations
Ateam of UCR electrical engineers and material scientists demonstrated a research breakthrough that may result in wide-ranging advancements in electrical, optical, and computer technologies.
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Grove School engineer Samah Saeed is beneficiary of $4.6m DoE grant to advance quantum computing
City College of New York Computer engineer and scientist Samah M. Saeed is the co-recipient of a $4.6 million U.S. Department of Energy [DoE] grant to advance quantum computing.
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Carbon ‘Bank’ At Risk Of Failure
Tropical rainforests store 25%-40% of global soil carbon, though they occupy only 7% of Earth’s land area.
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Uc Irvine Joins Effort To Train Next-gen Physics Workforce
UCI is now part of consortium of universities and national labs that are aiming to foster the growth of the next generation of physicists.
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How a mutation in the SKD3 enzyme can cause MGCA7 disease
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions report in the journal Nature Communications how a mutation in the enzyme SKD3 can cause a form of a genetic disease known as 3-methylglutaconic aciduria (MGCA7).
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Physicists find unusual waves in nickel-based magnet
Neutron scattering reveals coherent waves of ‘spin excitons’ in nickelate crystal
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Exploring the Force that Binds the Universe
Physicists Rosi Reed and Anders Knospe lead pioneering experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory to better understand the strong nuclear force responsible for all matter.
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Diamond cut precision: Beck to develop diamond sensors for neutron experiment and quantum information science
The nuclear physics group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is looking for evidence of new physics in neutrons, electrically neutral particles that hold atomic nuclei together with an interaction called the strong force.
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FSU announces bold investments in quantum science and engineering
At the atomic and subatomic scales of matter, classical laws of nature lose control and quantum mechanics take over. Discoveries of new quantum phenomena and materials, such as quantum entanglement and topological systems, promise to deliver groundbreaking technologies.
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A Holographic View into Quantum Anomalies
Theorists calculated how the key ingredients of a phenomenon called the chiral magnetic effect (CME) should evolve over time in an expanding quark-gluon plasma (QGP).
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Small Fusion Experiment Hits Temperatures Hotter than the Sun’s Core
To produce commercial energy, future fusion power plants will need to achieve temperatures of 100 million degrees C.
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Detecting Neutrinos from Nuclear Reactors with Water
Neutrinos are subatomic particles that interact with matter extremely weakly.
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Viruses Could Reshuffle the Carbon Cycle in a Warming World
Microbes play important roles in ecosystems, and these roles are changing with global warming.
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Surprising Preference in Particle Spin Alignment
Certain particles that emerge from a hot soup of matter generated in collisions of atomic nuclei appear to have a preferential “global spin alignment.”
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Conformer-Dependent Reactivity of Carbonyl Oxides Leads to Dramatically Different Atmospheric Fates
Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) is a type of air pollution that affects health, air quality, and the global climate. SOA forms when ammonia and related chemicals called amines react with oxygenated species.
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Jefferson Lab Hosts International Computing In High Energy And Nuclear Physics Conference
Experts in high-performance computing and data management are gathering in Norfolk next week for the 26th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP2023).
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How Could a Changing Climate Impact Society, Infrastructure, and People?
New Climate Simulation Data Sets Provide Insights for Earth’s Future
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New tools to combat Chicago’s changing climate
Chicago is already experiencing the impacts of climate change — from extreme weather to flooding and heat waves.
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A Pectin-Synthesizing Enzyme May Help Trees Weather Storms. Could It Be Key to More Sustainable Bioproducts?
Spring means snowstorms for much of the country, which can bring inches of heavy, wet snow. Tree branches sag, and a few snap—but most bounce back quickly with the warming spring sun.
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Tiny Microbes Could Brew Big Benefits for Green Biomanufacturing
A research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley has engineered bacteria to produce new-to-nature carbon products that could provide a powerful route to sustainable biochemicals.