#New microfluidic device minimizes loss of high value samples

“#New microfluidic device minimizes loss of high value samples” Alexandra Ros, professor in Arizona State University’s School of Molecular Sciences and the Center for Applied Structural Discovery in the Biodesign Institute. Credit: Mary Zhu A major collaborative effort that has been developing over the last three years between ASU and European scientists, has resulted in…

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#How do stone forests get their spikes? New research offers pointed answer

“#How do stone forests get their spikes? New research offers pointed answer” This false-color photograph shows a “forest” of many candy pinnacles that have been dissolved in water. The candy was initially a solid block containing pores, which the dissolving process has reshaped into a bed-of-nails formation. Credit: NYU’s Applied Mathematics Lab Stone forests—pointed rock…

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#How to have a blast like a black hole

“#How to have a blast like a black hole” Fig.1: One of the world’s largest petawatt laser facility, LFEX, located in the Institute of Laser Engineering at Osaka University. Credit: Osaka University Researchers from the Institute of Laser Engineering at Osaka University have successfully used short, but extremely powerful laser blasts to generate magnetic field…

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#’Floppy’ atomic dynamics help turn heat into electricity

“#’Floppy’ atomic dynamics help turn heat into electricity” Evolution of atomic lattice oscillation waves upon heating the tin sulfide crystal, as measured with neutron scattering. Credit: Tyson Lanigan-Atkins, Delaire group, Duke University Materials scientists at Duke University have uncovered an atomic mechanism that makes certain thermoelectric materials incredibly efficient near high-temperature phase transitions. The information…

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#Looking skin deep at the growth of neutron stars

“#Looking skin deep at the growth of neutron stars” New LLNL predictions are tightly connected to how large neutron stars grow and what elements are likely synthesized in neutron star mergers. Credit: NASA. In atomic nuclei, protons and neutrons share energy and momentum in tight quarters. But exactly how they share the energy that keeps…

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#How to imitate natural spring-loaded snapping movement without losing energy

“#How to imitate natural spring-loaded snapping movement without losing energy” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Venus flytraps do it, trap-jaw ants do it, and now materials scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst can do it, too—they discovered a way of efficiently converting elastic energy in a spring to kinetic energy for high-acceleration, extreme velocity movements…

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#The ALICE TPC is upgraded

“#The ALICE TPC is upgraded” The ALICE TPC being tested in its clean room in May 2020. Credit: CERN “One more centimeter,” said the chief technician, while operating the hydraulic jack system on 14 August. The 5-m-diameter, 5-m-long cylindrical detector gently slid into the parking position, 56 meters below the ground in the ALICE cavern…

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#LHC creates matter from light

“#LHC creates matter from light” A 2018 ATLAS event display consistent with the production of a pair of W bosons from two photons, and the subsequent decay of the W bosons into a muon and an electron (visible in the detector) and neutrinos (not detected). Credit: CERN The Large Hadron Collider plays with Albert Einstein’s…

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#Zooming in on dark matter

“#Zooming in on dark matter” Projected dark matter density map, created using a simulation measuring 2.4 billion light years on each side. . The intermediate square (top right) is just under a million light years across. The smallest square (bottom left) is the deepest zoom: it is only 783 light years across, equivalent to 500…

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