
High-performance Plasmas May Make Reliable, Efficient Fusion Power A Reality
In the quest to produce
nuclear fusion energy,
researchers from the DIII-D
National Fusion Facility
have recently confirmed
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Flipping A Photonic Shock Wave
Physicists have directly
observed a reverse shock
wave of light in a specially
tailored structure known as
a left-handed metamaterial.
Although it was first
predicted over forty years
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Upping The Power Triggers An Ordered Helical Plasma
If you keep twisting a
straight elastic string, at
some moment it starts
kinking in a wild way.
Something similar occurs
when one increases the
... > full story

Live Recordings Of Cell Communication
A new advanced method for
nano-scale imaging of
vesicle-fusion could add to
our understanding of
diseases of the nervous
system and viral infections.
In the long term, this could
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SNM Applauds House Action To Build Medical Isotopes Reactor In The US
November 6, 2009 SNM applauds the US House of Representatives for its passage of H.R. 3276 -- the American Medical Isotopes Production Act of ... > full story -
LANL Roadrunner Models Nonlinear Physics Of High-power Lasers
October 31, 2009 Scientists are using an adapted version of VPIC, a particle-in-cell plasma physics code, to model the nonlinear physics of laser backscatter energy transfer and plasma instabilities in an attempt to ... > full story -
Hidden Costs Of Energy Production And Use
October 27, 2009 A new report examines and, when possible, estimates "hidden" costs of energy production and use -- such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health -- that are not reflected in market prices ... > full story -
Science At The Petascale: Roadrunner Results Unveiled
October 26, 2009 The world's fastest supercomputer, Roadrunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed its initial "shakedown" phase doing accelerated petascale computer modeling and simulations of a variety ... > full story -
How Low Doses Of Radiation Can Cause Heart Disease And Stroke
October 23, 2009 A mathematical model constructed by researchers predicts the risk of cardiovascular disease (heart attacks, stroke) associated with low background levels of radiation. The model shows that the risk ... > full story -
Smaller And More Efficient Nuclear Battery Created
October 9, 2009 Batteries can power anything from small sensors to large systems. While scientists are finding ways to make them smaller but even more powerful, problems can arise when these batteries are much ... > full story -
Just A Yoctosecond: Shortest Flashes From Ultra-hot Matter
October 6, 2009 High-energy heavy ion collisions can be a source of light flashes of a few yoctoseconds duration (a septillionth of a second, 10^-24 s) -- the time that light needs to traverse an atomic nucleus. ... > full story -
'Trash Can' Nuclear Reactors Could Power Human Outpost On Moon Or Mars
October 4, 2009 NASA has made a series of critical strides toward the development of new nuclear reactors the size of a trash can that could power a human outpost on the moon or Mars. Three recent tests at different ... > full story -
Superheavy Element 114 Confirmed: A Stepping Stone To The 'Island Of Stability'
September 25, 2009 Scientists at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have confirmed the production of the superheavy element 114, ten years after a group at the Joint Institute for ... > full story -
Using Waste To Recover Waste Uranium
September 19, 2009 Using bacteria and inositol phosphate, a chemical analogue of a cheap waste material from plants, researchers have recovered uranium from the polluted waters from uranium mines. The same technology ... > full story
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