Hunting Moon Water With Neutrons Water is the difference between a temporary visit and a permanent home. If humanity is serious about building a lasting presence on the Moon, finding usable ice near the lunar south pole isn't just a scientific curiosity, it's a practical necessity. Now NASA is sending a clever instrument that hunts for water without digging a single hole, using the behaviour of subatomic particles to sniff out hidden ice deposits up to three feet underground.

Hunting Moon Water With Neutrons #Science #Space #PlanetaryScience #MoonWater #NeutronScattering #PlanetaryExploration

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⚛️ Send your abtract for the #SETN2026 Biennial Meeting! #BCMaterials and @ztffct.bsky.social organize this event on the state of the art on #NeutronScience.
📅 July 13-15
📌 Bizkaia Aretoa, Bilbao
✅ Abstracts: April 17
🔗 setn2026.es/en
#Neutronics #NeutronScattering #Magnetism

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#ChinaFission is the only viable #nuclear #fission and most likely the only viable #neutronscattering at all

Cost to scale these will be prohibitive. At 4x the yield for a similar #neutronscattering infrastructure it's still not competitive with spammed solar & sodium ion batteries. So why bother ?

Thorium is just what China focused on. It's a more complex fuel chain. But it's working now. So buy theirs.

Turbines are entirely recyclable now and many long life parts can often just be rebuilt. That can never be true of any part of any #neutronscattering infrastructure.

#FrackedLNG is wildly expensive yes & a climate & security disaster. But electric motors displacing ICE frees up other fossil fuel.

#research #cationpi #neutronscattering

Cation−π Interactions in Biomolecular Contexts by Neutron Scattering and Molecular Dynamics: A Case Study of the Tetramethylammonium Cation (Červenka, Shanks, Mason, Jungwirth) – J. Phys. Chem. B: doi.org/10.1021/acs....

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🚨 #WeAreHiring!
Two predoc positions for the #TracktheTwin #MSCA doctoral network (Tracking Nanomaterial Performance, Towards Digital Twins of Quantum Dots Under Loading): ComputationalNanochemistry & #NeutronScattering
🗓️ Deadline: March 31 https://www.bcmaterials.net/en/join-us

KFN awarded Dr. Leonardo Chiappisi for his work on polymer-based soft matter, and Dr. Paul Zakalek, Dr. Bruno Baumeister, and Dr. Christian Reiter for advancing neutron sources. Congratulation! 🥳

Around 200 researchers attended the German Conference on #NeutronScattering 2024 in Aachen this week. Organized by KFN, FZJ, and @RWTH, the event focused on #NeutronResearch in areas like energy materials and medicine. www.fz-juelich.de/en/jcns/news...