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World’s most powerful neutron source unlocks crystals 100x smaller with 2.8 MW boost

Scientists in the US have upgraded the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), the most powerful ...

Beyond 0 and 1: Ferrotoroidic material can store four magnetic states

Today's computers store information using only two values: 0 and 1. But as electronic devices become smaller and reach their ...
Oak Ridge National Lab

SNS upgrade accelerates neutron research, boosts data quality

During its 20 years of operations, SNS has become the world-leading user facility for neutron scattering experiments to investigate the structure and dynamics of materials. The completed proton power ...
ZME Science

The First Atomic Bomb Made a Crystal Scientists Had Never Seen Before

Before trinitite, the only known naturally formed quasicrystal came from meteorite fragments, likely produced during a ...

Unexplored interactions between electrons and atomic nuclei shed light on dark matter

Dark matter particles could be mediators of the interaction between electrons and atomic nuclei, as shown by a study ...
Scientific American

Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test

The Trinity bomb test left behind a unique form of matter, and now, scientists have discovered a new chemical structure ...
AlphaGalileo

Molecules shed light on dark matter

Dark matter particles could be mediators of the interaction between electrons and atomic nuclei, as shown by a study ...

After Decades, MIT Researchers Capture the First 3D Atomic View of a Mysterious Material

A long-standing mystery in materials science is beginning to unravel as researchers directly probe the hidden atomic complexity of relaxor ferroelectrics.
The New York Times

Some of the World’s Atomic Clocks Were Off Last Week (by 5-Millionths of a Second)

How some of the world’s most precise clocks missed a very small beat. By Mike Ives and Adeel Hassan Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected ...
New Scientist

Quantum experiment settles a century-old row between Einstein and Bohr

A thought experiment that was at the heart of an argument between famed physicists Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr in 1927 has finally been made real. Its findings elucidate one of the core mysteries ...
The New York Times

His Group Made World-Class Measurements of Atomic Elements

Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The fate of some experiments hangs in the air. Lost Science Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams ...