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Brookhaven Lab Launches New Quantum Network Facility
Always Adapting: Scientists Use Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source to Fight SARS-CoV-2 Variants
Ames Laboratory Earns Historic Chemical Landmark Designation
The laboratory is shaping its future much like it shaped its past: by forging new ground and by using science to meet national and global challenges.
The facility provides capabilities for benchmarking performance, validating concepts, and expediting the development of the quantum internet ecosystem
Scientists using the Advanced Photon Source are concentrating efforts on mutations of the virus that causes COVID-19.
The landmark status is in honor of the heroic effort by the Iowa scientists and technicians for their part of the Manhattan Project.
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UW Researchers Receive Advanced Photon Source Use Award From Argonne National Laboratory
The team is working to achieve in-situ X-ray diffraction measurements on a novel catalyst, which is able to convert carbon dioxide mixed with methane.
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Researchers Reveal the Origin Story for Carbon-12, A Building Block for Life
An international team has theorized how the extreme conditions in stars produce carbon-12, described as “a critical gateway to the birth of life.”
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Insights From Algae Genes Unlock Mysteries of Plant Growth and Health
A new study led by UC Riverside, Princeton University, and Stanford University have discovered the functions of hundreds of genes in algae.
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What We're Still Learning About How Trees Grow
A study led by the University of Utah found that tree growth does not seem to be generally limited by photosynthesis but rather by cell growth.
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