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October 18, 2017Quarks are the fundamental building blocks of matter and have family members with different masses. The up and down quarks, which make up neutronsNuclear Physics
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October 16, 2017Nuclear Science Week is an international celebration of the atomic world. Just as the nucleus is at the center of the atom, nuclear science is a...National Nuclear Security Administration
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October 6, 2017The probability of electron emission relative to that of gamma-ray emission is called the internal conversion coefficient (ICC). The new ICCNuclear Physics
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October 6, 2017The OLYMPUS experiment was conceived at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2007 and carried out by an international collaborationNuclear Physics
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BulletinOctober 6, 2017The first experimental result has been published from the newly upgraded Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF). The 12-GeV CEBAFNuclear Physics
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BulletinOctober 2, 2017While scientists have known that molecules confined within single-walled nanotubes behave differently than their bulk counterparts, it hasBasic Energy Sciences
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August 30, 2017Graphene may revolutionize electronics. But first, researchers need to get its electrons under control.Office of Science
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August 18, 2017The tokamak is an efficient design for confining superheated plasmas with magnetic fields because much of the magnetic field is produced byFusion Energy Sciences
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August 18, 2017To achieve its goal, ITER’s core ion temperature must be around 15 keV, or over 10 times hotter than in the core of the sun. At the same timeFusion Energy Sciences
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BulletinAugust 18, 2017The researchers synthesized a Pu(III) starting material, PuCp”3 (Cp” = the substituted anionic cyclopentadienyl ring [CBasic Energy Sciences