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UW-Madison stellerator a step forward in plasma research
A project by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has come one step closer to making fusion energy possible.
The research team, headed by electrical and computer engineering Professor David Anderson and research assistant John Canik, recently proved that the Helically Symmetric eXperiment (HSX), an odd-looking magnetic plasma chamber called a stellarator, can overcome a major barrier in plasma research, in which stellarators lose too much energy to reach the high temperatures needed for fusion.
New form of matter-antimatter transformation observed for first time
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Physicists wipe away complexity for a clearer view of atomic nuclei
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(Now all they need is a source of dilithium crystals... )For the first time, scientists of the BaBar experiment at the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) have observed the transition of one type of particle, the neutral D-meson, into its antimatter particle. Mesons, of which there are about 140 types, are made up of fundamental particles called quarks, which can be produced when particles collide at high energy. [...]
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Physicists wipe away complexity for a clearer view of atomic nuclei
-----------Atomic nuclei have long locked away their secrets in huge data sets that tax even high-power supercomputers.
But in a March 16 Physical Review Letters article, researchers from Michigan State and Central Michigan universities report dramatic success in stripping away this stubborn mathematical complexity.
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Laser-cooling brings large object near absolute zero
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(BRRR!!!)Using a laser-cooling technique that could one day allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in large objects, MIT researchers have cooled a coin-sized object to within one degree of absolute zero.
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Assistive robot adapts to people, new places
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(Number Five isn't yet alive, but they're working on it!)In the futuristic cartoon series "The Jetsons," a robotic maid named Rosie whizzed around the Jetsons' home doing household chores--cleaning, cooking dinner and washing dishes.
Such a vision of robotic housekeeping is likely decades away from becoming reality.
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Was Einstein right? Scientists provide first public peek at Gravity Probe B results
For the past three years a satellite has circled the Earth, collecting data to determine whether two predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity are correct.
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One is the geodetic effect—the amount by which the mass of the Earth warps the local space-time in which it resides. The other effect, called frame-dragging, is the amount by which the rotating Earth drags local space-time around with it.
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Iowa State physicist leads team designing detector for international particle collider
John Hauptman stood before an international gathering of particle physicists and announced he had another idea.
One that was different. One that was simpler. And best of all, one that he was sure would work.
New model describes avalanche behavior of superfluid helium
By utilizing ideas developed in disparate fields, from earthquake dynamics to random-field magnets, researchers at the University of Illinois have constructed a model that describes the avalanche-like, phase-slip cascades in the superflow of helium.
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