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As 2016 draws to a close, we’re looking back at just a few of the many cool stories that came out of research conducted by Argonne scientists and engineers this year.
Most materials, when viewed at the atomic level, come in one of two types. Some materials, like table salt, are highly crystalline, which means that the atoms in the material are arranged in orderly and repeating geometric patterns.
Although a lot of time and effort in particle physics are devoted to finding ways to increase the energy of certain experiments, sometimes it is even more important to find ways to safely, quickly and easily remove energy from an experiment.
Bob Hill, technical director of advanced nuclear energy research and development at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory, was honored last week as a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS).
Nicola Ferrier, a computer scientist in Argonne’s Mathematics and Computer Science Division, gave a presentation at Argonne’s LDRD Day celebration on Oct. 24.
For more than a century and a half of physics, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that entropy always increases, has been as close to inviolable as any law we know. In this universe, chaos reigns supreme.
When a baseball pitcher uncorks a nasty curveball, the spinning motion of the ball forces air to flow around it at different speeds, causing the ball to “break” in one direction.