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CERN outlines next-gen circular collider

January 17, 2019
News
CERN has submitted proposals for the Future Circular Collider (FCC), a particle accelerator 10 times as powerful as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).The four-volume document presents different options for a...
Physics & Engineering
Particle Physics
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Greener ammonia eliminates hydrogen and metal catalyst

January 17, 2019
News
A new process of creating ammonia from nitrogen and water eliminates the use of hydrogen or solid metal catalysts.The low temperature, low pressure electrolytic process developed at Ohio's Case Western...
Chemistry, Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Energy
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Atomic precision qubits in a silicon crystal

January 15, 2019
News
Quantum scientists in Australia have demonstrated the world’s first 3D atomic-scale quantum chip architecture.UNSW researchers showed the feasibility of their 3D chip architecture unveiled in 2015. This uses single-atom quantum...
Physics & Engineering
Physics, Quantum Physics
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Beating the diamond-standard

January 4, 2019
Feature
Forget diamond – when considering super-hard materials, says Metin Örnek, the search for an alternative is on…  How hard is super-hard? With advances in material science and engineering, comes the possibility...
Materials, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Chemical Engineering, Engineering, In Depth, Materials, Materials Science, Physics
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Bioprocess turns pine needles into new products

January 3, 2019
News
A new bioprocess could turn pine needles on abandoned Christmas trees into environmentally friendly chemical products.
Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Biological Sciences, Chemical Engineering
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Two beams are better than one

December 10, 2018
Feature
As neutron crystallography advances it is becoming a powerful scientific tool, but will it replace its well-known X-ray cousin? Not so say Matthew Blakeley and Derek Logan – rather, they...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Chemical Engineering, Engineering, In Depth, Physics
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Artificial synapse created from nanowire memristor

December 6, 2018
News
A German team has built an artificial synapse from nanowires that can replicate functions of biological synapses.The component, developed by a team at Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen Universities, is...
Materials, Physics & Engineering
Energy, Materials Science, Nanotechnology
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Black hole gas rings flow in complex formations

November 30, 2018
News
The black hole "donut" is not actually a rigid structure. The black rings of gas surrounding active supermassive black holes are not simple donut shapes, but a complex collection of...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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Graphene performance doubled by removing silicon contamination

November 29, 2018
News
Researchers have registered the biggest electrical charge capacity for graphene by removing silicon contamination, unlocking the potential of the supermaterial.A team at RMIT in Melbourne demonstrated the effectiveness of using...
Physics & Engineering
Solid State Physics
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NASA’s InSight spacecraft lands on Mars

November 27, 2018
News
NASA’s InSight robot lander has successfully touched down on the surface of Mars.The spacecraft touched down on Monday, November 26, near Mars’ equator on the western side of a flat...
Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Physics
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