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Los Alamos achieves world-record pulsed magnetic field, moves closer to 100-tesla mark

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory's Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory have set a new world record for the strongest magnetic field produced by ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

25 Tesla, world-record 'split magnet' makes its debut

A custom-built, $2.5 million "split magnet" system with the potential to revolutionize scientific research in a variety of fields has made its debut at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Researchers to model the life cycles of successful virtual teams

Each year, hundreds of scientists from all over the world come to the Florida State University campus to conduct research at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Starting in January, the researchers themselves will ...

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Food, water safety provide new challenges for today's sensors

Sensors that work flawlessly in laboratory settings may stumble when it comes to performing in real-world conditions, according to researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Technology / Engineering

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists take a giant step forward in understanding plutonium

Plutonium is the most complex element in the periodic table, yet it is also one of the most poorly understood ones. But now a well-known scientific technique, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, ...

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

An unlikely route to ferroelectricity

(Phys.org) -- Ferroelectricity, which was first observed in the 1940s, is an interesting phenomenon involving the spontaneous (non-induced) formation of charge polarization (separation of charge) in certain ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

300,000 times the strength of the Earth's magnetic field: BLADE's new 14 Tesla magnet

The first researchers to use the new high-field superconducting magnet at Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility, are searching for “hidden magnetic states”. If found, ...

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created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 4

Physicists benchmark quantum simulator with hundreds of qubits

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have built a quantum simulator that can engineer interactions among hundreds of quantum bits (qubits) -- 10 times more than previous devices. ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Where do the highest-energy cosmic rays come from? Not from gamma-ray bursts, says IceCube study

The IceCube neutrino telescope encompasses a cubic kilometer of clear Antarctic ice under the South Pole, a volume seeded with an array of 5,160 sensitive digital optical modules (DOMs) that precisely track ...

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created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array: Famous radio telescope officially gets new name

Astronomers and officials from around the globe gathered on the high desert of New Mexico Saturday to officially bestow a new name on the world's most famous radio telescope and to mark its transformation ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The tick-tock of the optical clock

(PhysOrg.com) -- UK's National Physical Laboratory time scientists have made an accurate measurement of the highly forbidden octupole transition frequency in an ytterbium ion, which could be used as the basis ...

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created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Magnetic field researchers target Hundred-Tesla goal

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s biggest magnet facility today met the grand challenge of producing magnetic fields in excess of 100 tesla while conducting six different ...

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created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Studying slimy substances for a cleaner environment

Extracellular polymeric substances, or EPS, are the slimy material that bacteria excrete and surround themselves with as they form biofilms. EPS are mostly water (up to 95%), but the remaining ingredients ...

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created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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