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DOE SCIENCE NEWS BY TOPIC: Physical Sciences
DOE provides the majority (approximately 90%) of federal support for high-energy and nuclear physics research, which uses advanced accelerator facilities as well as detectors placed underground and in space to understand the fundamental nature of matter, energy, space, time and the properties and interactions of atomic nuclei and nuclear matter.

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Materials for measuring the universe

Materials for measuring the universe

Physicists have their own version of the "butterfly effect" that hinges on precise measurements of one of the building blocks of the universe.

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Detecting homemade explosives, not toothpaste

Sandia National Laboratories researchers want airports, border checkpoints and others to detect homemade explosives made with hydrogen peroxide without nabbing people whose toothpaste happens to contain peroxide.

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Detecting homemade explosives, not toothpaste

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Lab News Releases
1-Aug-2013 - August 2013 story tips from Oak Ridge National Laboratory
DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

1-Aug-2013 - Geoscientists unearth mineral-making secrets potentially useful for new technologies
Virginia Tech

1-Aug-2013 - CU-Boulder team develops new water splitting technique that could produce hydrogen fuel
University of Colorado at Boulder

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