When electrons cooperate
Remaining uncertainties in the century-plus effort to explain superconductivity and advance its applications has a University of Illinois team of physicists using advanced computing to grease the skids...
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As boat propellers rotate underwater and fuel injectors pump fuel, tiny bubbles cluster around their moving parts. The bubble clouds flow away and rapidly collapse, creating regions of powerful...
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From batteries to biology, how atoms move is critical for understanding how matter behaves. Unless temperature is lowered to absolute zero, atoms routinely bump into each other or fly apart. These...
View ArticleWhen electrons cooperate
Remaining uncertainties in the century-plus effort to explain superconductivity and advance its applications has a University of Illinois team of physicists using advanced computing to grease the skids...
View ArticleLaser focus
Laser physicists are tantalizingly close to building a device that delivers highly focused beams of tumor-killing ionized particles and packing it in a compact unit that would fit in a doctor’s office....
View ArticleState of excitement
Customized codes and top-of-the-line supercomputers are enabling teams in three states to enter a quantum world where excited electrons and other particles create and process energy. “We’re not...
View ArticleCalculating collapse
As boat propellers rotate underwater and fuel injectors pump fuel, tiny bubbles cluster around their moving parts. The bubble clouds flow away and rapidly collapse, creating regions of powerful...
View ArticleMatter in motion
From batteries to biology, how atoms move is critical for understanding how matter behaves. Unless temperature is lowered to absolute zero, atoms routinely bump into each other or fly apart. These...
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When we think of the particle accelerators that elucidate the building blocks of nature, we think of spectacular and massive facilities like the 27-kilometer-circumference Large Hadron Collider (LHC),...
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As researchers develop new materials for spacecraft, aircraft and earthbound uses, they need to generate images from experimental results quickly at atomic-scale resolution. “We need to understand how...
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