Articles Posted in the Matter – Energy Category
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Storing Data On Atomic Roundabouts
There are right-handed and left-handed yoghurts, right-handed and left-handed snail shells, and right-handed and (occasionally) left-handed screws. Scientists at the University of Bonn have now demonstrated the existence of right-handed and left-handed “magnetic vortices”. Through…
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New Giant Molecule Created
Ulrich Kortz, Professor of Chemistry at Jacobs University, and his team successfully synthesized a polyoxometalate with 100 Tungsten and 20 Cerium atoms that has a molar mass of about 30 kilo Dalton. With a maximum…
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Fortifying Feed With Biodiesel Co-products
Biofuel research isn’t just a matter of finding the right type of biomass—corn grain, soybean oil, animal fat, wood or other material—and converting it into fuel. Scientists must also find environmentally and economically sound uses…
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Quantum Device Traps, Detects And Manipulates The Spin Of Single Electrons
A novel device, developed by a team led by University at Buffalo engineers, simply and conveniently traps, detects and manipulates the single spin of an electron, overcoming some major obstacles that have prevented progress toward…
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Understanding The Big Bang: Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Aids Search For Quark-gluon Plasma
A large scale STAR experiment is currently under way at Brookhaven National Laboratory, with the Sun Grid Compute Utility from Sun’s Network.com delivering large-scale computing power and related resources on a utility basis as the…