WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: * * * A faster, more reliable method for simulating the plasmas used to make computer chips By Rachel Kremen Researchers developed a faster, more stable way to simulate the swirling electric fields inside industrial plasmas -- the kind used to make microchips and coat materials. The improved method could lead to better tools for chip manufacturing and fusion research. Plasma   more

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, May 22 -- The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab issued the following news release: * * * Pioneering the Nuclear Glue Frontier A first-of-its-kind measurement will help physicists learn about gluons, the particles that hold together nuclei in atoms of ordinary matter NEWPORT NEWS, VA - A team of physicists has embarked on a journey where few others have gone: into the glue that binds atomic nuclei. The resultant measurement, which was extract  more