[ad_1] On the first floor of the MIT Nuclear Science Laboratory hangs an instrument called “A Broadband / Resonant Approach to Cosmic Axis Sensing with an Amplifying B-Field Ring Apparatus”, or ABRACADABRA for short. As the name states, ABRACADABRA’s goal is to detect axions, a hypothetical particle that could be …
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[ad_1] The HEART detector array, shown here in this rendering, consists of 19 copper-framed “towers” that each house a matrix of 52 cube-shaped crystals. (Credit: HEART Collaboration) Surrounded by lead and also shielded by nearly a mile of rock from the natural bombardment of particles on the Earth’s surface, the …
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[ad_1] Artist’s illustration of water molecules. A research team led by Berkeley Lab has designed a new crystalline material that targets and traps copper ions from wastewater with unprecedented precision and speed. (Credit: Sashkin / Shutterstock) WWe rely on water to quench our thirst and to irrigate abundant agricultural land. …
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[ad_1] The artistic conception of the dust and gas surrounding a newly formed planetary system. Image courtesy of NASA. A long time ago – about 4.5 billion years – our sun and our solar system formed in the short span of 200,000 years. This is the conclusion of a group …
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[ad_1] As a California high school student, Jamie Wright thought her family’s finances meant that college was out of reach. Now, the UO graduate student is the lead author of a paper that provides a reference map covering 1,600 years of human and climate impacts on soil in the Amazon. …
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