Diamonds exist in all sizes, from the Hope Diamond to minuscule crystals only a few atoms across. The smallest of these diamonds are created...
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Leading the Charge: Exotic New Materials for Future Devices
How will we improve computer technology to create chips that are smaller, faster, and more efficient? For leaps in performance, we need to create...
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Smashing Protons: First Physics at the LHC
The Large Hadron Collider, at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, is the largest scientific instrument ever built. For nearly a year now, we have been...
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Archaeopteryx: Bringing the Dino-Bird to Life
Some 150 million years ago, a strange creature died in a tropical lagoon that today is located in Bavaria, Germany. In 1861, a single...
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Life Redefined: Microbes Built with Arsenic
UPDATE - In the time following this lecture, aspects of the research featured here have been disproven or come into question. See this article...
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Particle Accelerator on a Chip
Accelerators are huge, expensive tubes sometimes miles long that produce high energies for smashing protons or making intense X-ray light. 21st-century technology has taken...
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Deep Science: Mining for Dark Matter
Astronomers infer that the universe contains huge amounts of a mysterious, invisible substance called "dark matter". To account for the structure of galaxies and...
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Printing Solar Cells for Greener Energy
One of the greatest challenges humanity faces is finding a way to provide the world's population with clean energy. Since sunlight is our most...
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Engineering Human Touch
We humans interact with our physical environment through our senses of touch, sight, smell, taste, and hearing. One of the great challenges in developing...
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Magnetic Movies: Watching Memory Bits Dance
Movies allow us to experience and understand worlds we may never be able to visit. During this presentation Bill Schlotter will explain how to...
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In the Shadow of the HIGGS!
This has been an exciting summer for particle physicists who have collectively spent the last forty years hunting for the Higgs boson. Last year...
