Scientists take a freeze-frame look at excited electrons
An international team of scientists has blazed a new trail for studying how atoms respond to radiation, by tracking the energetic movement of electrons when a sample of liquid water is blasted with X-rays.

The experiment, described in this week
https://cosmiclog.com/2024/02/16/scientists-take-a-freeze-frame-look-at-excited-electrons/
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Pacific Northwest National Lab creates a new AI center
The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is shining a brighter spotlight on artificial intelligence by creating the Center for AI @PNNL, but don’t expect the lab’s researchers to build a better chatbot.

Instead, the center is meant to adva
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/12/14/pacific-northwest-national-lab-creates-a-new-ai-center/
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Zeno Power tests a new type of nuclear heat source
Zeno Power says it has successfully completed its first demonstration of a new type of radioisotope heat source that could be used to generate off-grid power in settings ranging from the bottom of the ocean to the surface of the moon.

The demonstration — performed at
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/10/26/zeno-power-tests-a-new-type-of-nuclear-heat-source/
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Could the Pacific Northwest become ‘Quantum Valley’?
California’s Silicon Valley may rule the roost for internet startups, and Kendall Square in the Boston area may set the pace for the biotech industry, but could the Pacific Northwest leap into the lead for quantum computing?

Experts who are explor
https://cosmiclog.com/2023/04/14/could-the-pacific-northwest-become-quantum-valley/
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