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Newswise: MagLab scientist honored for contributions to nuclear magnetic resonance
Released: 29-Sep-2023 11:05 AM EDT
MagLab scientist honored for contributions to nuclear magnetic resonance
Florida State University

Rob Schurko has received the Regitze Vold Prize at the Alpine Conference, an international forum on magnetic resonance in solids. Schurko is director of the MagLab’s Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility and is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University.

Newswise: Does antimatter fall up or down? Physicists observe the first gravitational free-fall of antimatter
Released: 27-Sep-2023 5:05 PM EDT
Does antimatter fall up or down? Physicists observe the first gravitational free-fall of antimatter
University of Calgary

The physics behind antimatter is one of the world’s greatest mysteries. Looking as far back as The Big Bang, physics has predicted that when we create matter, we also create antimatter.

Newswise: Advancing atomic-scale technology
Released: 26-Sep-2023 3:05 PM EDT
Advancing atomic-scale technology
Case Western Reserve University

A Case Western Reserve University-led team is working on technology that could dramatically improve electrical transformers and power converters in electric vehicles.

Newswise: Argonne prepares for exascale supercomputer simulations of nuclear reactors
Released: 26-Sep-2023 2:05 PM EDT
Argonne prepares for exascale supercomputer simulations of nuclear reactors
Argonne National Laboratory

New exascale simulations, some of the most robust ever, could improve reactor design, driving down costs to build.

Newswise: A model explaining the changes in air radiation dose rate due to rainfall
Released: 25-Sep-2023 3:05 PM EDT
A model explaining the changes in air radiation dose rate due to rainfall
University of Tsukuba

The 2011 Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident caused the release and deposition of radionuclides, resulting in an increase in air dose rates in the forests of Fukushima Prefecture.

Released: 25-Sep-2023 11:05 AM EDT
TETI 2.0: Understanding nuclear fuel behavior at the atomic level
Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

Researchers are getting a closer look at the behavior of nuclear fuel at the atomic level with the Center for Thermal Energy Transport under Irradiation (TETI) 2.0 technology.

Newswise: Centre for Ion Beam Applications at NUS designated as IAEA’s first Collaborating Centre in Singapore
Released: 20-Sep-2023 4:05 AM EDT
Centre for Ion Beam Applications at NUS designated as IAEA’s first Collaborating Centre in Singapore
National University of Singapore (NUS)

The Centre for Ion Beam Applications (CIBA), a multidisciplinary research centre at the National University of Singapore (NUS), has recently been designated as an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Collaborating Centre for Research and Development of Accelerator Science and Multidisciplinary Applications.

Released: 19-Sep-2023 6:05 AM EDT
Groundbreaking research shows that the limits of nuclear stability change in stellar environments where temperatures reach billions of degrees Celsius
University of Surrey

New research is challenging the scientific status quo on the limits of the nuclear chart in hot stellar environments where temperatures reach billions of degrees Celsius.

Newswise: From atomic nuclei to astrophysics, collaborative program builds basis for scientific discoveries
Released: 18-Sep-2023 5:05 PM EDT
From atomic nuclei to astrophysics, collaborative program builds basis for scientific discoveries
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is leading two nuclear physics research projects within the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing, or SciDAC, program from the Department of Energy Office of Science. One of the projects is called Nuclear Computational Low-Energy Initiative, or NUCLEI. The other is Exascale Nuclear Astrophysics for FRIB, or ENAF.

Released: 15-Sep-2023 3:05 PM EDT
MSU, FRIB developing artificial intelligence tools to enhance discovery, technology and training
Michigan State University

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, or DOE-SC, is investing in machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence, to accelerate the speed of research and development in nuclear science. Michigan State University researchers at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, are leading five of these new grant projects. These projects aim to enhance the breadth of FRIB’s activities, covering nuclear physics experiments and theory, as well as particle accelerator operations. FRIB is a DOE-SC user facility, meaning that these advances will serve the global research community while preparing students to become the next generation of leaders and innovators in nuclear science.

Released: 13-Sep-2023 1:05 PM EDT
Department of Energy Announces $5.8 Million for Research on Nuclear Data Benefitting Nuclear Science and Applications
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $5.8 million in funding for five projects in nuclear data for basic nuclear science and applications.

Released: 11-Sep-2023 10:15 AM EDT
Traineeships Aim to Boost Inclusion, Support Minorities in Nuclear Physics
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Ambar Rodriguez-Alicea wants to explore the very basics of matter and the universe as we know it. As the aspiring physicist from Puerto Rico puts it, “I want a job that forces me to keep learning until the end.”

Newswise: ‘Doubly magic’ rare isotope oxygen-28 can’t overcome its neutron-rich instability
Released: 6-Sep-2023 3:05 PM EDT
‘Doubly magic’ rare isotope oxygen-28 can’t overcome its neutron-rich instability
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Isotopes — atoms of a particular element that have different numbers of neutrons — can be used for a variety of tasks, from tracking climate change to conducting medical research.Investigating rare isotopes, which have extreme neutron-to-proton imbalances and are often created in accelerator facilities, provides scientists with opportunities to test their theories of nuclear structure and to learn more about isotopes that have yet to be utilized in application.

Newswise: Scientists Make the First Observation of a Nucleus Decaying into Four Particles After Beta Decay
Released: 1-Sep-2023 4:05 PM EDT
Scientists Make the First Observation of a Nucleus Decaying into Four Particles After Beta Decay
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Scientists have observed a rare new radioactive decay mode for the first time. In this decay mode, oxygen-13 (with eight protons and five neutrons) decays by breaking into three helium nuclei (an atom without the surrounding electrons), a proton, and a positron (the antimatter version of an electron) following beta decay. The findings expand scientific knowledge of decay processes and the properties of the nucleus before the decay.

Newswise: Australia’s Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) selects Symplectic Elements to enable comprehensive research management
Released: 29-Aug-2023 10:00 AM EDT
Australia’s Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) selects Symplectic Elements to enable comprehensive research management
Digital Science and Research Solutions Ltd

Digital Science is pleased to announce that Australia’s Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has chosen Symplectic Elements from Digital Science’s flagship products to advance awareness of its world-class research.

   
Newswise: Calculations Predict Surprising Quark Diffusion in Hot Nuclear Matter
Released: 25-Aug-2023 3:05 PM EDT
Calculations Predict Surprising Quark Diffusion in Hot Nuclear Matter
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Tracking how high energy jets of quarks travel through the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) can reveal information about the QGP’s properties. Recent theoretical calculations that include non-local quantum interactions in the QGP predict a super-diffusive process that deflects energetic particles faster than previously assumed. The discovery might help explain why the QGP flows like a nearly perfect liquid.

Released: 21-Aug-2023 4:15 PM EDT
Ringing Protons Give Insight into Early Universe
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

An experiment to explore the 3D structures of nucleon resonances – excited states of protons and neutrons -- at Jefferson Lab offers critical insights into the basic building blocks of matter and has added one more puzzle piece to the vast picture of the chaotic, nascent universe that existed just after the Big Bang.

Released: 21-Aug-2023 11:05 AM EDT
Argonne receives funding to use AI and machine learning for nuclear physics research
Argonne National Laboratory

Three Argonne projects will receive funding to use AI and machine learning for nuclear physics accelerators and detectors.

Newswise: Artificial Intelligence Beyond the Clinic
Released: 21-Aug-2023 8:00 AM EDT
Artificial Intelligence Beyond the Clinic
Harvard Medical School

Artificial intelligence's impact goes beyond clinical medicine. It is reshaping science in more profound ways.

   
Released: 17-Aug-2023 1:35 PM EDT
Department of Energy Announces $16 Million for Research on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) for Nuclear Physics Accelerators and Detectors
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $16 million for fifteen projects that will implement artificial intelligence methods to accelerate scientific discovery in nuclear physics research.



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