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Theory, experiment, abstract
questions, concrete applications — there is no hierarchy
of prestige or pertinence when it comes to the elements required
for meaningful science. This issue of Science@Berkeley Lab looks
at surprising convergences
that hold out hope for the future. |
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Fueling the Future
Because we urgently need to find out how we can use energy without
putting carbon into the atmosphere, scientists from many divisions
at Berkeley Lab are working together seeking ways to make fuel
and electricity directly from sunlight. Ideas and issues were
discussed at a recent conference, Solar
to Fuel: Future Challenges and Solutions.
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In Series |
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The conclusion of a three-part series on the role of Berkeley
Lab researchers in planning for the International Linear Collider,
an extraordinary new accelerator. This installment: physics
and detectors to explore fundamental particles and forces,
from the microworld to the cosmos. |
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Nanovistas |
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The world's
tiniest electric motor, just 200 nanometers long, has a
power density 100 million times greater than a V6 engine. It
may someday power nanoscale devices that walk, crawl, swim,
or fly to deliver disease-fighting drugs inside the body, sniff
out explosives, or perform other, as-yet-unimagined services.
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When photons and ions collide, new properties
of matter may appear. Photo-ionized carbon-60 molecules show
two kinds of collective motion, a "giant
resonance" of C-60's valence electrons — one made
possible only because a buckyball is a hollow sphere.
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The Big Splash
Apparently the early universe wasn't what scientists expected.
At RHIC they recreated conditions a few 10-millionths of a second
after the Big Bang, but they didn't find quarks and gluons whizzing
around in a gaslike state. Instead they found something more
like soup — a strongly coupled, friction-free quark-gluon
liquid.
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Testing the Waters
Uptake of atmospheric carbon in ocean waters is increasing,
and the need for better measurement is acute. An atmospheric
scientist volunteered to spend weeks of sleepless nights aboard
a NOAA research
vessel in the South Atlantic, testing new instruments designed
to be installed on autonomous Carbon Explorer floats.
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