Rare nuclear transition provides evidence for supernova mechanism

Screen Shot 2020-01-31 at 10.26.58With its higher-than-expected propensity to capture electrons, neon could drive some stars’ thermonuclear death. Read more in Physics Today…

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Observing Metabolic Pathways in Action

Image2-cropped-525Enhancing biological and renewable energy research by developing advanced molecular imaging capabilities. Read more at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory…

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Broad bandwidth helps listeners understand fragmented speech

People having lunch at the famous Time Out marketHigh-frequency audibility is singled out as essential for comprehension in crowded settings.  Read more in Physics Today…

 

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Electrons in graphene follow viscous fluid laws

media_sizes_full_figure1A new imaging technique captures the characteristic hydrodynamic flow profile.  Read more in Physics Today…

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Real-time observations explain magma dynamics of Kilauea’s 2018 eruption

Screen Shot 2020-01-03 at 09.45.48Piston-like caldera collapses drove episodic lava flows far from the summit.  Read more in Physics Today…

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Mapping the Remains of Supernovae

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A new tool provides detailed, 3-D chemical view of exploded star systems. Read more in Scientific American…

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A Time Crystal Without a Driver

Screen Shot 2019-12-13 at 10.34.46A calculation shows that an elusive, isolated quantum time crystal may not be far from reality.  Read more in APS Physics…

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Plants slow river migration

DCIM/100MEDIA/DJI_0691.JPGRivers in unvegetated landscapes migrate an order of magnitude faster than their vegetated counterparts.  Read more in Physics Today…

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There’s a lithium battery in your future

Screen Shot 2019-12-10 at 08.40.01The latest approaches toward developing batteries with higher energy density for electric vehicles and other applications. Read more in MRS Bulletin…

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Physical cosmology wins a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics

Screen Shot 2019-12-01 at 13.37.09James Peebles developed a mathematical framework that describes how the universe evolved. Decades of empirical evidence later, it still holds up. Read more in Physics Today…

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