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At the forefront of current materials research, high-performance computing, and environmental science and management efforts, the Laboratory seeks solutions to energy-related problems through the exploration of physics, chemistry, engineering, applied mathematics and materials sciences. Established in the 1940s with the successful development of the most efficient process to produce high-purity uranium metal for atomic energy, the Lab now pursues a broad range of scientific priorities.

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Project Neptune: Specialized gas detection for nonproliferation

Project Neptune: Specialized gas detection for nonproliferation

Sandia National Laboratories' Project Neptune aims to design a system capable of sensing, from among the loud signals of a lot of gases, the weak signals from specific gases that are signs of nuclear proliferation. The researchers believe their gas correlation technique will prove ideal for a simple, inexpensive sensor to monitor those few illusive gases.

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The curious case of germanium-72

Physicists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Tennessee, and Germany's GSI in Darmstadt recently used ORNL's Jaguar supercomputer to explore the pair bonding of neutrons in one uncommon isotope -- germanium-72. In doing so they discovered that changes in temperature and rotation take the nucleus through at least two physical phases.

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21-Jun-2013 - Ames Laboratory scientists solve riddle of strangely behaving magnetic material
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10-Jun-2013 - Ames Laboratory scientists discover new family of quasicrystals
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5-Jun-2013 - Resistivity switch is window to role of magnetism in iron-based superconductors
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