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Scientists are Searching for a Mirror Universe. It Could be Sitting Right in Front of You.
At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee, physicist Leah Broussard is trying to open a portal to a parallel universe. Continue Reading →
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Neutrons Allow Analysis of Polymer Gels’ Unusual Attributes
Products like cosmetics, adhesives, and paints rely on a common key component: gels. Polymer gels, a gel type with unique properties, have piqued the interest of researchers because of their potential uses in medical applications. Continue Reading →
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Phase Separation in Biological Membranes: Theory and Experiment
In biological membranes, functional domains or so-called lipid “rafts” have proven difficult to study systematically, owing in part to their chemical complexity and that of membrane composition, which often contains thousands of different biomolecules, including hundreds of distinct lipid species. Neutron scattering techniques have recently proven capable of studying nanoscopic lipid heterogeneities populating spherical vesicles.… Continue Reading →