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Environment Apr 3, 2017

Risk analysis for CO2 sequestration at enhanced oil recovery sites

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an attractive displacing agent for enhanced oil recovery. Because a large portion of the injected CO2 remains in place in depleted reservoirs after enhanced oil recovery, this method could also be ...

Condensed Matter Feb 1, 2017

The shape of melting in two dimensions

Snow falls in winter and melts in spring, but what drives the phase change in between?

Astronomy Jan 30, 2017

Astronomers detect hydrogen corona of Jupiter's moon Europa

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔº)—Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have spotted an atomic hydrogen corona around Jupiter's icy moon Europa. The discovery which could improve our understanding of Europa's tenuous atmosphere ...

Optics & Photonics Jan 23, 2017

Camera able to capture imagery of an optical Mach cone

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔº)—A team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has built a camera apparatus capable of capturing moving imagery of an optical Mach cone. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, ...

Astronomy Dec 13, 2016

Simulations suggest life on planet Proxima b might be possible if it has a thick atmosphere or strong magnetic field

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔº)—Dimitra Atri, an astrobiologist with the Blue Marble Institute of Space Science, has published a paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society outlining his work running simulations of planet Proxima ...

Condensed Matter Nov 16, 2016

QMC simulations reveal magnetic properties of titanium oxide material

By running computationally intensive quantum Monte Carlo simulations at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility, researchers have demonstrated the ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Nov 10, 2016

Memories and energy landscapes of magnetic glassy states

An international team of researchers has revealed the intricate relation between how the systems remember their past and their complex energy landscapes.

Earth Sciences Nov 8, 2016

England's white cliffs found to be eroding ten times faster over the past 150 years (Update)

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔº)—A team of researchers from the U.K. and the U.S. has found that England's famed white cliffs have been eroding away 10 times faster over the past century and a half than they did in the prior 7,000 years. In ...

Quantum Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Oct 21, 2016

When quantum scale affects the way atoms emit and absorb particles of light

In 1937, US physicist Isidor Rabi introduced a simple model to describe how atoms emit and absorb particles of light. Until now, this model had still not been completely explained. In a recent paper, physicists have for the ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Oct 11, 2016

The first cutting-edge simulation of the warm dense electron gas

An international team of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Imperial College London (IC), and Kiel University (CAU), headed by Professor Michael Bonitz of the Institute of Theoretical Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics and Astrophysics ...

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