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IBM Investigates Microelectronics at NSLS-II
IBM researchers used the Hard X-ray Nanoprobe at NSLS-II to visualize strain in a new architecture for next-generation microelectronics.
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Solid-State Technology for Big Data in Particle Physics
Physicists are experimenting with the use of NVMe, or nonvolatile memory express technology, to determine the best way to access stored files.
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On-Surface Synthesis of Graphene Nanoribbons Could Advance Quantum Devices
Researchers developed a “bottom-up” approach — building the graphene nanoribbon directly at the atomic level for specific applications.
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DIII-D Scientists to Work with PPPL to Find a Path to Sustained Fusion Energy
The scientists will perform research on physics and instrumentation with the NSTX-U facility’s staff to restart operations late next year.
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Flexing Our Research Muscle: Scientists Use APS to Better Understand Muscle Form, Function
A research team uses powerful X-rays to uncover the structure and behavior of proteins regulating tarantula muscle movement.
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A Day in the Life of a SLAC Machine Maker
At the Machine Shop, Pete Franco crafts beautiful, intricate and precise parts for the lab’s latest scientific tools.
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Chasing Their Tails but Getting Somewhere: Reimagining the Shape of Noise Leads to Improved Molecular Models
A Berkeley Lab intern and his mentor develop an algorithm that will extract better structures from low-quality diffraction data.
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The High-Tech Evolution of Scientific Computing: A Slight Return
Argonne is combining simulation, data science and machine learning approaches to help realize the promise of exascale computing.
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Pinning Down the Ampere with a Supersensitive Particle Detector
A device called the skipper CCD, developed by Fermi and Berkeley laboratories scientists, could spark an advance in measurement science.
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Berkeley Lab Scientists Contribute to New Exploration of Higgs Boson Interactions
Team uses NERSC supercomputer simulations to achieve high-sensitivity analysis of Higgs bosons decaying into pairs of muons.
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University and Stakeholder News

Biofuels Project Led by John Sedbrook Awarded $13 Million from DOE
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $13 million grant to a nationwide project led by Illinois State University.
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Scientists Explore Signals for a Quantum Universe
Their approach to find a signal for the quantum origin of structure set out to show how a test of quantum mechanics in the universe could work.
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No Need to Mind the Gap
Astrophysicists fill in 11 billion years of our universe's expansion history.
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Water Availability Has Changed, and Humans Are to Blame
Study demonstrates that human-induced climate change has influenced water availability on land in the driest months of the year, over the last century
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"Giant Atoms" Enable Quantum Processing and Communication in One
Researchers devise an on-off system that allows high-fidelity operations and interconnection between processors.
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Room Temperature Superconductivity Creeping Toward Possibility
The possibility of achieving room temperature superconductivity took a tiny step forward with a recent discovery by a team of Penn State researchers.
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Chemistry Researchers Receive $3.3M as Part of New Solar Energy Center
NC State University received funding to establish a research center to advance artificial photosynthesis for the production of fuels from sunlight.
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UCF Researchers Generate Attosecond Light from Industrial Laser
New measurement could have important implications in power generation, chemical- and biological-weapon detection, and medical diagnostics.
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DOE-Funded UAH Directed Plasma Research May Advance Pulsed Fusion Propulsion Systems
Gabe Hu has been awarded a grant for research on the deflection magnetic nozzle for a spacecraft’s fusion propulsion system.
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Scientists Find First Evidence for the Higgs Boson Interaction with Muons
UCSD professor Vivek Sharma and team followed the theory that the way particles interact with the Higgs boson accounts for their differences in mass.
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