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Researchers Explain Magnetic Field Misbehavior in Solar Flares: The Culprit Is Turbulence

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When a solar flare erupts from the sun, its magnetic fields sometime break a widely accepted rule of physics. Why? Now we know.

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Soft Matter Offers New Ways to Study How Materials Arrange

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A fried breakfast food popular in Spain provided the inspiration for the development of doughnut-shaped droplets that may provide scientists with a new approach for studying fundamental issues in physics, mathematics and materials.

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World’s Smallest Droplets

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Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, may have created the smallest drops of liquid made in the lab.

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Graphene Study Confirms 40-Year-Old Physics Prediction

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Researchers have directly observed—through moiré-patterned graphene—a rare quantum effect that produces a repeating butterfly-shaped energy spectrum, confirming the longstanding prediction of this quantum fractal energy structure called Hofstadter’s butterfly. The study is published in Nature’s May 15 Advance Online Publication.

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Never-Before-Seen Energy Pattern Observed at National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Two research teams at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab) broke through a nearly 40-year barrier recently when they observed a never-before-seen energy pattern.

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Perimeter Institute Public Lecture: In Praise of Weakness June 5

On Wednesday, June 5, 2013, as part of Perimeter Institute’s Public Lecture Series presented by Sun Life Financial, physics Professor Aephraim Steinberg tackles the complexities of measurement within the field of quantum mechanics.

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Physicists Light “Magnetic Fire” to Reveal Energy’s Path

NYU physicists have uncovered how energy is released and dispersed in magnetic materials in a process akin to the spread of forest fires, a finding that has the potential to deepen our understanding of self-sustained chemical reactions.

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Two ORNL Researchers, Two Joint Faculty Receive DOE Early Career Awards

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Materials science and physics research led by early career Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists received a boost this week from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Early Career Research Program.

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Spintronics Discovery

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University of Delaware researcher John Xiao and his team report a fundamental finding in the journal Nature Communications that will help advance the development of next-generation electronics called "spintronics."

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Revolutionary Muon Experiment to Begin with 3,200-Mile Move of 50-Foot-Wide Particle Storage Ring

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Scientists are moving a 40-ton complex electromagnet that spans 50 feet in diameter from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York to Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois.

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