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Fermilab delivers first cryomodule for ultrapowerful X-ray laser at SLACA Fermilab team built and tested the first new superconducting accelerator cryomodule for the LCLS-II project, which will be the nation's only X-ray free-electron laser facility

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• Rich Stanek, Fermilab, rstanek@fnal.gov, 630-840-3519

A video about Fermilab's first cryomodule is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8w1Z_dlzOY
Earlier this week, scientists and engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois loaded one of the most advanced superconducting radio-frequency cryomodules ever created onto a truck and sent it heading west.

Today, that cryomodule arrived at the U.S. DOE’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, where it will become the first of 37 powering a three-mile-long machine that will revolutionize atomic X-ray imaging. The modules are the product of many years of innovation in accelerator technology, and the first cryomodule Fermilab developed for this project set a world record in energy efficiency.

These modules, when lined up end to end, will make up the bulk of the accelerator that will power a massive upgrade to the capabilities of the Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC, a unique X-ray microscope that will use the brightest X-ray pulses ever made to provide unprecedented details of the atomic world. Fermilab will provide 22 of the cryomodules, with the rest built and tested at the U.S. DOE’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia.

The quality factor achieved in these components is unprecedented for superconducting radio-frequency cryomodules. The higher the quality factor, the lower the cryogenic load, and the more efficiently the cavity imparts energy to the particle beam. Fermilab’s record-setting cryomodule doubled the quality factor compared to the previous state-of-the-art.

“LCLS-II represents an important technological step which demonstrates that we can build more efficient and more powerful accelerators,” said Fermilab Director Nigel Lockyer. “This is a major milestone for our accelerator program, for our productive collaboration with SLAC and Jefferson Lab and for the worldwide accelerator community.”

Today’s arrival is merely the first. From now into 2019, the teams at Fermilab and Jefferson Lab will build the remaining cryomodules, including spares, and scrutinize them from top to bottom, sending them to SLAC only after they pass the rigorous review. 

“It’s safe to say that this is the most advanced machine of its type,” said Elvin Harms, a Fermilab accelerator physicist working on the project. “This upgrade will boost the power of LCLS, allowing it to deliver X-ray laser beams that are 10,000 times brighter than it can give us right now.”

With short, ultrabright pulses that will arrive up to a million times per second, LCLS-II will further sharpen our view of how nature works at the smallest scales and help advance transformative technologies of the future, including novel electronics, life-saving drugs and innovative energy solutions. Hundreds of scientists use LCLS each year to catch a glimpse of nature’s fundamental processes.

To meet the machine’s standards, each Fermilab-built cryomodule must be tested in nearly identical conditions as in the actual accelerator. Each large metal cylinder – up to 40 feet in length and 4 feet in diameter – contains accelerating cavities through which electrons zip at nearly the speed of light. But the cavities, made of superconducting metal, must be kept at a temperature of 2 Kelvin (minus 456 degrees Fahrenheit).

To achieve this, ultracold liquid helium flows through pipes in the cryomodule, and keeping that temperature steady is part of the testing process.

“The difference between room temperature and a few Kelvin creates a problem, one that manifests as vibrations in the cryomodule,” said Genfa Wu, a Fermilab scientist working on LCLS-II. “And vibrations are bad for linear accelerator operation.”

In initial tests of the prototype cryomodule, scientists found vibration levels that were higher than specification. To diagnose the problem, they used geophones — the same kind of equipment that can detect earthquakes — to rule out external vibration sources. They determined that the cause was inside the cryomodule and made a number of changes, including adjusting the path of the flow of liquid helium. The changes worked, substantially reducing vibration levels — to a 10th of what they were originally — and have been successfully applied to subsequent cryomodules.

Fermilab scientists and engineers are also ensuring that unwanted magnetic fields in the cryomodule are kept to a minimum, since excessive magnetic fields reduce the operating efficiency.

"At Fermilab, we are building this machine from head to toe,” Lockyer said. “From nanoengineering the cavity surface to the integration of thousands of complex components, we have come a long way to the successful delivery of LCLS-II’s first cryomodule."

Fermilab has tested seven cryomodules, plus one built and previously tested at Jefferson Lab, with great success. Each of those, along with the modules yet to be built and tested, will get its own cross-country trip in the months and years to come.

Read more about the LCLS-II project in SLAC's press release.

This project is supported by DOE’s Office of Science. LCLS is a DOE Office of Science user facility.

Fermilab is America’s premier national laboratory for particle physics research. A U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science laboratory, Fermilab is located near Chicago, Illinois and operated under contract by the Fermi Research Alliance, LLC. Visit Fermilab’s website at http://www.fnal.gov and follow us on Twitter @Fermilab. 

The DOE Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit http://science.energy.gov. 

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ΔΙΗΜΕΡΙΔΑ ΣΤΟ ΑΣΚΛΗΠΙΕΙΟ ΒΟΥΛΑΣ:«ενημέρωση για τα συνήθη προβλήματα που αντιμετωπίζουν οι επαγγελματίες υγείας ΠΦΥ καθώς και των κατοίκων της περιοχής για τα γνωστά αντικείμενα αγωγής υγείας»

Διημερίδα οργανώνεται την Παρασκευή 19.1.2018, ώρες 09.00-13.00 και Κυριακή 21.1.2018, ώρες 11.30-13.30 στο Αμφιθέατρο του Νοσοκομείου «Ασκληπιείο» Βούλας με σκοπό την «ενημέρωση για τα συνήθη προβλήματα που αντιμετωπίζουν οι επαγγελματίες υγείας ΠΦΥ καθώς και των κατοίκων της περιοχής για τα γνωστά αντικείμενα αγωγής υγείας».

Η ενημέρωση του κοινού, με ελεύθερη είσοδο, θα λάβει χώρα την Κυριακή 21/1/2018, ώρες 11.30-13.30.

2^η ΔΥΠΕ ΠΕΙΡΑΙΩΣ & ΑΙΓΑΙΟΥ

ΚΕΝΤΡΟ ΥΓΕΙΑΣ ΒΑΡΗΣ

ΔΙΟΡΓΑΝΩΣΗ  7^ης ΔΙΗΜΕΡΙΔΑΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ Π.Φ.Υ.

ΟΡΓΑΝΩΤΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ

ΕΠΙΤΙΜΟΣ ΠΡΟΕΔΡΟΣ: Γ. ΔΑΪΚΟΣ-ΟΜΟΤΙΜΟΣ ΚΑΘΗΓΗΤΗΣ ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΣΧΟΛΗΣ ΠΑΝ. ΑΘΗΝΩΝ.

ΠΡΟΕΔΡΟΣ: π.Μ.Δανδουλάκης ΣΥΝΤΟΝΙΣΤΗΣ Κ.Υ. ΒΑΡΗΣ

ΑΝΤΙΠΡΟΕΔΡΟΣ: κ.Ε. Θηραίος ΑΝ. ΣΥΝΤΟΝΙΣΤΗΣ Κ.Υ. ΒΑΡΗΣ

ΟΡΓΑΝΩΤΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ: Π.Χαριτωνίδης, Θ.Τσόπελας, Δ. Παπαδοπούλου, Μ.Τυρλή, Μ.Κραβαρίτου, Α. Περιμένης, Ζ.Χρονά, Π. Σκλαβούνος, Π. Μανδόλας, Ν.Σαμαρά, Ε. Τσιντσιλίδα, Μ.Κανέλου, Ε. Σαμπαζιώτου, Χ. Τζίμας, Α. Ελευθερίου, Α.Αργυροπούλου, Κ.Γιαλεδάκη, Β. Θεοδοσίου, Ε.Μεράκου, Κ. Τυμπαλέξη, Δ. Παναγιωτόπουλος, Α. Πατέλης, Α.Μάλλης , Α. Παίζης, Ι.Γκίνη

ΣΥΝΔΙΟΡΓΑΝΩΤΕΣ: Κ.Υ. ΒΑΡΗΣ-2^Η ΥΠΕ ΠΕΙΡΑΙΩΣ & ΑΙΓΑΙΟΥ-ΓΕΝ. ΝΟΣΟΚΟΜΕΙΟ «ΑΣΚΛΗΠΙΕΙΟ ΒΟΥΛΑΣ»-ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗ ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ-ΣΥΛΛΟΓΟΣ ΦΙΛΩΝ ΑΣΚΛΗΠΙΕΙΟΥ ΒΟΥΛΑΣ, ΔΗΜΟΣ Β-Β-Β

ΗΜΕΡΟΜΗΝΙΑ: Παρασκευή 19 και ΚΥΡΙΑΚΗ 21 ΙΑΝΟΥΑΡΙΟΥ 2018

ΤΟΠΟΣ ΔΙΕΞΑΓΩΓΗΣ: ΑΜΦΙΘΕΑΤΡΟ ΝΟΣΟΚΟΜΕΙΟΥ «ΑΣΚΛΗΠΙΕΙΟ ΒΟΥΛΑΣ»

ΧΡΟΝΟΣ ΟΜΙΛΙΩΝ: ΔΙΑΡΚΕΙΑ ΟΜΙΛΙΩΝ 20 ΛΕΠΤΑ ΓΙΑ ΚΑΘΕ ΕΠΙ ΜΕΡΟΥΣ ΘΕΜΑΤΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΜΕ 5 ΛΕΠΤΑ ΕΠΙΠΛΕΟΝ ΧΡΟΝΟ ΓΙΑ ΕΡΩΤΗΣΕΙΣ

ΣΚΟΠΟΙ

1.Ενημέρωση του ιατρικού και παραϊατρικού προσωπικού του Κ.Υ. Βάρης και της ευρύτερης περιοχής (Δήμοι Β-Β-Β και Γλυφάδας), οι οποίοι εργάζονται στην ΠΦΥ εντός ή εκτός ΠΕΔΥ. Τα θέματα ενημέρωσης θα είναι τα συνήθη προβλήματα που αντιμετωπίζουν οι επαγγελματίες υγείας ΠΦΥ, στον περιορισμένο χρόνο μια ημερίδας.

Η ενημέρωση θα γίνει για τις τελευταίες ελληνικές κατευθυντήριες οδηγίες και τα θεραπευτικά πρωτόκολλα ΕΟΦ.

2.Παράλληλα με την επιστημονική ενημέρωση στα θέματα αυτά θα γίνει προσπάθεια να απαντηθούν τα  ακόλουθα ερωτήματα:

• « Πως μπορούν να συνεργαστούν οι επαγγελματίες υγείας ΠΦΥ της περιοχής μας (είτε ανήκουν στο ΠΕΔΥ είτε όχι), μεταξύ τους και με τους ειδικούς ιατρούς Δευτεροβάθμιας Φροντίδας και ειδικούς ΠΕΔΥ της περιοχής μας, προκειμένου να αυξηθεί η ποιότητα των παρεχομένων υπηρεσιών υγείας προς τους ασφαλισμένους ΕΟΠΥΥ και μη και να μειωθεί ο χρόνος αναμονής για τα ειδικά ιατρεία»
• «Ποια είναι τα όρια του οικογενειακού ιατρού (γενικής ιατρικής/παθολογίας) και πότε θα παραπέμψει στον ειδικό ιατρό».

3. Η επικοινωνία και γνωριμία των επαγγελματιών υγείας ΠΦΥ της περιοχής είτε ανήκουν στο ΠΕΔΥ είτε όχι, με σκοπό την συσπείρωση των προσπαθειών για βελτίωση των παρεχομένων υπηρεσιών υγείας, στην κρίσιμη οικονομική συγκυρία.

        4. Ενημέρωση των κατοίκων της περιοχής για τα γνωστά αντικείμενα αγωγής

       υγείας,  που το υπουργείο υγείας κάθε χρόνο μας καλεί προς ενημέρωση.

                                       2^η ημέρα

Κυριακή  21/1/2018, ώρες 11.30-13.30

ΕΝΗΜΕΡΩΣΗ ΕΠΑΓΓΕΛΜΑΤΙΩΝ ΥΓΕΙΑΣ Κ.Υ. ΒΑΡΗΣ & ΠΕΡΙΟΧΗΣ ΕΥΘΥΝΗΣ

11.30-12.00  Εγγραφές- Χαιρετισμοί

1. 12.00-12.20

 « ΠΡΟΛΗΨΗ ΤΗΣ ΑΝΟΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΓΚΑΙΡΗ ΑΝΤΙΜΕΤΩΠΙΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΣΥΝΕΠΕΙΩΝ ΤΗΣ»

Αναστάσιος Περιμένης , Επ.Β. Γενικής Ιατρικής Κ.Υ.Βάρης

2. 12.20-12.40

  « ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΑ ΗΜΕΡΑ ΚΑΡΔΙΑΣ, 29/09/2017 »

Παύλος Σκλαβούνος , Επ.Β. Γενικής Ιατρικής Κ.Υ.Βάρης

3. 12.40-13.00

  « ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΑ ΗΜΕΡΑ ΟΡΑΣΗΣ 12/10/2017 »

Παναγιώτης Μανδόλας , Επ.Ιατρός Γενικής Ιατρικής Κ.Υ. Βάρης

4. 13.00-13.20

 « ΕΓΚΡΙΣΗ ΔΙΑΤΡΟΦΙΚΩΝ ΣΥΣΤΑΣΕΩΝ ΓΙΑ ΓΕΝΙΚΟ ΠΛΗΘΥΣΜΟ ΚΑΙ ΕΙΔΙΚΕΣ ΠΛΗΘΥΣΜΙΑΚΕΣ ΟΜΑΔΕΣ »

Γεώργιος Βαρσάμης , Ειδικευόμενος Γενικής Ιατρικής

Προεδρείο: π.Μιχαήλ Δανδουλάκης, Διευθυντής Γενικής Ιατρικής, Συντονιστής Ε.Λ. Κ.Υ.Βάρης, Ελευθέριος Θηραίος, Διευθυντής Γενικής Ιατρικής. Αναπληρωτής Συντονιστής Ε.Λ. Κ.Υ.Βάρης ,Κα Πασχαλιά Τιμαγένη, Πρόεδρος Συλλόγου Φίλων Νοσοκομείου « Ασκληπιείο Βούλας »

 13.20-13.30     ΣΥΖΗΤΗΣΗ

Το Διοικητικό Συμβούλιο

του Συλλόγου Φίλων του Νοσοκομείου «Ασκληπιείο» Βούλας

Πασχαλιά Τιμαγένη, Πρόεδρος

Γεώργιος Λεβέντης, Αντιπρόεδρος

Ιουλία Ρεδιάδου, Γενική Γραμματέας-Ταμίας

Δημήτριος Αναγνωστόπουλος, Μέλος

Ηρακλής Καραγεώργος, Μέλος

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ΣΥΛΛΟΓΟΣ ΦΙΛΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΝΟΣΟΚΟΜΕΙΟΥ "ΑΣΚΛΗΠΙΕΙΟ" ΒΟΥΛΑΣ

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FERMILAB:Dark Energy Survey publicly releases first three years of data

Ιαν 10 τις 9:03 μ.μ.

Science contact

• Josh Frieman, Director, Dark Energy Survey, Fermilab, frieman@fnal.gov, 847-274-0429
• Alex Drlica-Wagner, David N. Schramm fellow, Fermilab, kadrlica@fnal.gov

For a version of this release with images, please visit http://news.fnal.gov/2018/01/dark-energy-survey-publicly-releases-first-three-years-of-data‎

Access the Dark Energy Survey data here: https://des.ncsa.illinois.edu/releases/dr1

At a special session held during the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C., scientists on the Dark Energy Survey (DES) announced today the public release of their first three years of data. This first major release of data from the Survey includes information on about 400 million astronomical objects, including distant galaxies billions of light-years away as well as stars in our own galaxy.

DES scientists are using this data to learn more about dark energy, the mysterious force believed to be accelerating the expansion of the universe, and presented some of their preliminary cosmological findings in the special session. As part of that session, DES scientists also announced today the discovery of 11 new stellar streams, remnants of smaller galaxies torn apart and devoured by our Milky Way.

The public release of the first three years of DES data fulfills a commitment scientists on the survey made to share their findings with the astronomy community and the public. The data cover the full DES footprint – about 5,000 square degrees, or one eighth of the entire sky — and include roughly 40,000 exposures taken with the Dark Energy Camera. The images correspond to hundreds of terabytes of data and are being released along with catalogs of hundreds of millions of galaxies and stars.

“There are all kinds of discoveries waiting to be found in the data. While DES scientists are focused on using it to learn about dark energy, we wanted to enable astronomers to explore these images in new ways, to improve our understanding of the universe,” said Dark Energy Survey Data Management Project Scientist Brian Yanny of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

“The great thing about a big astronomical survey like this is that it also opens a door to many other studies, like the new stellar streams,” added Adam Bolton, associate director for the Community Science and Data Center at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO). “With the DES data now available as a ‘digital sky,’ accessible to all, my hope is that these data will lead to the crowdsourcing of new and unexpected discoveries.”

The DES data can be accessed online.

The Dark Energy Camera, the primary observation tool of the Dark Energy Survey, is one of the most powerful digital imaging devices in existence. It was built and tested at Fermilab, the lead laboratory on the Dark Energy Survey, and is mounted on the National Science Foundation’s 4-meter Blanco telescope, part of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a division of NOAO. The DES images are processed by a team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

“We’re excited that this release of high-quality imaging data is now accessible to researchers around the world,” said Matias Carrasco Kind, DES release scientist at NCSA. “While DES was designed with the goal of understanding dark energy and dark matter, the huge amount of data in these images and catalogs will bring new scientific applications, challenges, and opportunities for discovery to astronomers and data scientists. In collaboration, NCSA, NOAO and the LIneA group in Brazil are providing the tools and resources to access and analyze this rich and robust data set.”

One new discovery enabled by the data set is the detection of 11 new streams of stars around our Milky Way. Our home galaxy is surrounded by a massive halo of dark matter, which exerts a powerful gravitational pull on smaller, nearby galaxies. The Milky Way grows by pulling in, ripping apart and absorbing these smaller systems. As stars are torn away, they form streams across the sky that can be detected using the Dark Energy Camera. Even so, stellar streams are extremely difficult to find since they are composed of relatively few stars spread out over a large area of sky.

“It’s exciting that we found so many stellar streams,” said astrophysicist Alex Drlica-Wagner of Fermilab. “We can use these streams to measure the amount, distribution and clumpiness of dark matter in the Milky Way. Studies of stellar streams will help constrain the fundamental properties of dark matter.”

Prior to the new discoveries by DES, only about two dozen stellar streams had been discovered. Many of them were found by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a precursor to the Dark Energy Survey. The effort to detect new stellar streams in the Dark Energy Survey was led by University of Chicago graduate student Nora Shipp.

“We’re interested in these streams because they teach us about the formation and structure of the Milky Way and its dark matter halo. Stellar streams give us a snapshot of a larger galaxy being built out of smaller ones,” Shipp said. “These discoveries are possible because DES is the widest, deepest and best-calibrated survey out there.”

Since there is no universally accepted naming convention for stellar streams, the Dark Energy Survey has reached out to schools in Chile and Australia, asking young students to select names. Students and their teachers have worked together to name the streams after aquatic words in native languages from northern Chile and aboriginal Australia. Read more about the names in Symmetry magazine.

Read the papers drawn from the first years of DES data online. An animation of several of the newly discovered streams can be seen on Fermilab’s website.

DES plans one more major public data release, after the survey is completed, which will include nearly twice as many exposures as in this release.

“This result is an excellent example of how ‘data mining’ — the exploration of large data sets — leads to new discoveries,” said Richard Green, director of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Astronomical Sciences. “NSF is investing in this approach through our foundationwide ‘Harnessing the Data Revolution’ initiative, which is encouraging fundamental research in data science. We’re expecting a drumbeat of exciting discoveries, particularly when the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope data floodgates are opened!”

This work is supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.

The Dark Energy Survey is a collaboration of more than 400 scientists from 26 institutions in seven countries. Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, U.S. National Science Foundation, Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, Higher Education Funding Council for England, ETH Zurich for Switzerland, National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics at Ohio State University, Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico and Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the collaborating institutions in the Dark Energy Survey, the list of which can be found at www.darkenergysurvey.org/collaboration. 

Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. NSF is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to promote the progress of science. NSF supports basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future. 

NCSA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides supercomputing and advanced digital resources for the nation’s science enterprise. At NCSA, University of Illinois faculty, staff, students and collaborators from around the globe use advanced digital resources to address research grand challenges for the benefit of science and society. NCSA has been advancing one third of the Fortune 50® for more than 30 years by bringing industry, researchers and students together to solve grand challenges at rapid speed and scale. For more information, please visit www.ncsa.illinois.edu. 

Fermilab is America’s premier national laboratory for particle physics and accelerator research. A U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science laboratory, Fermilab is located near Chicago, Illinois, and operated under contract by the Fermi Research Alliance LLC, a joint partnership between the University of Chicago and the Universities Research Association Inc. Visit Fermilab’s website at www.fnal.gov and follow us on Twitter at @Fermilab.

The DOE Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit science.energy.gov.

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Stampede supercomputer

01/09/2018 12:01 PM EST

The Stampede supercomputer, located at the University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), has already enabled research teams to predict where and when earthquakes may strike, how much sea levels could rise and how fast brain tumors grow. More about this ...

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Louisiana Consortium for Innovation in Manufacturing (Image 2)

01/09/2018 12:01 PM EST

At the Louisiana Consortium for Innovation in Manufacturing, students work with a dual beam-focused ion beam system used for micro/nanoscale materials characterization and structure fabrication. Pictured left to right, Yang Mu and Jordan Frick of Louisiana State University and Everest Ejigiri of ...

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Louisiana Consortium for Innovation in Manufacturing (Image 1)

01/09/2018 12:01 PM EST

At the Louisiana Consortium for Innovation in Manufacturing, Ukeamezhim Ayaugbokor of Southern University uses a high-temperature differential scanning calorimeter to analyze process conditions for advanced composite materials. [See related image

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION update

Dramatic new evidence about star and planet formation (Image 1)

01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST

A young double-star system in the Perseus Molecular Cloud, imaged with the Very Large Array. This pair would fit within the orbit of Neptune in our solar system. [Image 1 of 4 related images. See Image 2.] More about this image A ...

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"Walking in Color"

01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST

"Walking in Color," by Daniel M. Harris and John W.M. Bush. Quantum physics measures movements of the tiniest particles in the universe, which not only happen incredibly quickly and on very small scales, but also defy physicists' intuition. Analogies from the macroscopic world can help ...

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"American lobster larva"

01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST

"American lobster larva," by Jesica Waller, Halley McVeigh and Noah Oppenheim. As a master's student in marine biology at the University of Maine, Jesica Waller spent the summer taking pictures of baby lobsters. Increasingly warm and acidic oceans affect many marine species, and so Waller ...

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New class of molecular 'lightbulbs' illuminate MRI

01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST

Duke University scientists have discovered a new class of inexpensive and long-lived molecular tags that enhance MRI signals by 10,000-fold. To activate the tags, researchers mix them with a newly developed catalyst (center) and a special form of hydrogen (gray), converting them into long-lived ...

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Dwarf dark galaxy hidden in ALMA gravitational lens image

01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST

Composite image of the gravitational lens SDP.81 showing the distorted Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) image of the more distant galaxy (red arcs) and the Hubble optical image of the nearby lensing galaxy (blue center object). By analyzing the distortions in the ring, ...

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"Weedy seadragon life cycle"

01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST

"Weedy seadragon life cycle," by Stephanie Rozzo. During her time volunteering at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, freelance science illustrator Stephanie Rozzo helped clean the seahorse exhibit. Over time, she found herself enchanted by their colors and movements. Rozzo knew she had her next ...

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Dramatic new evidence about star and planet formation (Image 4)

01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST

In this artist's conception, a widely-separated pair of young, still-forming stars is in the background, forming by fragmentation of material in the larger cloud in which they are born. In the foreground, companions in a multiple-star system are forming through fragmentation of a dusty disk that ...

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"The FtsZ ring: a multilayered protein network"

01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST

"The FtsZ ring: a multilayered protein network," by Jennifer E. Fairman. When her colleague Jie Xiao approached her to make an illustration for a journal article, Jennifer Fairman didn't know just how challenging the assignment would be. Xiao was studying E. coli bacteria. Her team had ...

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Dramatic new evidence about star and planet formation (Image 3)

01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST

Disks of material surrounding young stars in the Perseus molecular cloud, imaged with the Very Large Array. Arrows indicate the direction of outflows from the young systems. [Image 3 of 4 related images. See Image 4.] More about this ...

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Dramatic new evidence about star and planet formation (Image 2)

01/02/2018 12:01 PM EST

A young triple-star system in the Perseus molecular cloud, imaged with the Very Large Array. [Image 2 of 4 related images. See Image 3.] More about this image A detailed study of young stars and their surroundings has produced dramatic ...

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