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Explosives at the Nanoscale: “World’s Smallest Controlled Heat Source” Helps Scientists Study and Improve Energetic Materials
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'Environmental Forensics' Could Cut the Cost of Brownfield Development
The emerging scientific discipline of 'Environmental Forensics' could make it easier to prove, to the satisfaction of a court of law, who is responsible for instances of pollution.
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DOE Announces $60 Million in Projects to Accelerate Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science today announced approximately $60 million in new awards annually for 30 computational science projects over the next three to five years. The projects are aimed at accelerating research in designing new materials, developing future energy sources, studying global climate change, improving environmental cleanup methods and understanding physics from the tiniest particles to the massive explosions of supernovae.
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