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Secrets of a silky cotton shirt

- Chemistry,Industry - Consumer Goods & Chemicals,Scientific news,D19,Japan,France,USA

Neutrons throw light on an important manufacturing process in the textile industry.

Stereo scientists refute the existence of sterile neutrinos

- Nuclear and Particle physics,Press releases,Scientific news,STEREO,France,Germany

The collaboration Stereo has found no proof that the sterile neutrino exists after six years of experimentation. Their conclusion will impact numerous branches of physics, with their study published on 12 January in Nature.

Towards improved plastic solar cells

- Environment,Advanced materials,Scientific news,IN1 TAS/Lagrange,IN5,IN6-Sharp,IN11,France,United Kingdom

Neutron spectroscopy provides a range of tools to study the structural dynamics of semiconducting organic materials for novel solar cells with improved power conversion efficiency.

Multi-scale structural characterization of foam: unprecedented detail revealed by a new device at the ILL

- News,Soft matter,Scientific news,D33,France

Understanding the feasibility of ‘magnetic graphene’

- News,Advanced materials,Magnetism,Scientific news,IN8,France,Germany,United Kingdom

Only by using neutron instruments from across the globe, have researchers been able to characterise the magnetism of a graphene-like material.

Searching for traces of dark matter with neutron spin clocks

- News,Nuclear and Particle physics,Scientific news,PF1B,Switzerland

An international research team has succeeded in significantly narrowing the scope for the existence of dark matter, with the use of a precision experiment developed at the University of Bern, and carried out at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL).

Polarised neutrons used for the first time to study 3D-printed magnets

- Advanced materials,Magnetism,Scientific news,United Kingdom

Courtesy of ISIS.

Grimy windows could be harbouring toxic pollutants

- News,Environment,Scientific news,FIGARO,United Kingdom

Super-Sized Protein Crystals From Space Could Help Treat Diseases on Earth

- Biology Health,Scientific news,DALI,USA

By Upward, the official magazine of the ISS National Lab

A Quantum Wave in Two Crystals

- Nuclear and Particle physics,Press releases,Scientific news,S18,Austria,France,Italy

Breakthrough in neutron physics: A team from TU Vienna, INRIM Turin and ILL Grenoble has succeeded for the first time in building a neutron interferometer from two separate crystals.