LHC collisions reveal oxygen and neon's shifting nuclear geometry

Many people are aware that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN smashes tiny subatomic particles together at nearly the ...

CERN physicists recreate matter from the early universe using ‘Little Big Bangs’

Physicists created signs of primordial quark-gluon plasma by colliding oxygen and neon nuclei, much smaller nuclei than ...
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Solid Oxygen e-Phase Crystal Structure Determined Along With The Discovery of a Red Oxygen O8 Cluster

• The structure of the red oxygen ε-phase formed under pressures above 10 GPa has been determined. • Discovery of an O 8 cluster, which is a new conformation of oxygen following ozone. The solid ...
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Honeycomb structure with oxygen-poor pores found in oxide scale on small lead-based reactor materials

A research team led by Jiang Zhizhong from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has found a honeycomb structure in localized regions at the top of ...
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Real-time magnetic structure tracking reveals oxygen redox in Li-rich cathode materials

Recently, a research team achieved real-time tracking of electronic/magnetic structure evolution in Li-rich Mn-based materials during the initial cycling through the self-developed operando magnetism ...