Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new particle accelerator at Michigan State University is set to discover thousands of never-before-seen isotopes. Facility for ...

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UC Santa Cruz Professor of Applied Mathematics Dongwook Lee has won a three-year, $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, which will fund his research on improving computer models for ...

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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Sean Liddick, Associate Professor of Chemistry, ...