Some mosquitoes like it hot
Newswise — Certain populations of mosquitoes are more heat tolerant and better equipped to survive heat waves than others, according to new research from Washington University in St.…
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Seeking Supermassive Black Holes Early On
Newswise — Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) – black holes with masses exceeding a million times that of the Sun – are known to prevail in the universe today.…
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Calculations Predict Surprising Quark Diffusion in Hot Nuclear Matter
The Science Scientists can use powerful colliders to smash atomic nuclei together to create a quark-gluon plasma (QGP). This “soup” of quarks and gluons, some of the fundamental building blocks of matter, filled…
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Department of Energy grant supports inclusive high energy physics research
Newswise — The new project creates opportunities for researchers from historically underrepresented groups to develop technology that will help us understand the forces behind an expanding universe. The…
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Physicist Vinícius Duarte wins a $2.5 million Early Career Research Award
Newswise — Vinícius Duarte, a research physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has won a prestigious $2.5 million Early Career Research…
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Four Brookhaven Scientists Receive Early Career Research Awards
Newswise — UPTON, NY—Four scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have been selected by DOE’s Office of Science to receive significant funding through its Early…
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Five ORNL scientists to receive DOE Early Career Research awards
Newswise — The Department of Energy’s Office of Science has selected five Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists for Early Career Research Program awards. Since its inception in 2010, the program…
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Newswise — Researchers led by Dr. XIN Liping from the Space-based Multi-band Astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) research team, National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences…
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Garnet solid electrolytes can be recycled via thermal healing
Newswise — Metallic lithium is considered as the ultimate anode material of next-generation high-performance energy storage system, owing to its ultrahigh theoretical specific capacity (3860 mA h g-1),…
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Newswise — Citizen science projects offer the general public, or segments of that public such as school students, an opportunity to take part in scientific research. The Extreme…
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Playing all the angles: A high-contrast grating structure for direction-tunable lasing
Newswise — Lasers find applications across several fields ranging from telecommunications and remote sensing to medicine. There are many ways in which one can generate laser emission, or…
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Opening the eye of the storm
Newswise — For the first time, high-energy muon particles created in the atmosphere have allowed researchers to explore the structures of storms in a way that traditional visualization…
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