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New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

Not only is this the thinnest material possible, but it also is 10 times stronger than steel and it conducts electricity better than any other known material at room temperature. These and graphene�...

Physics and Astronomy |

Electron self-injection into an evolving plasma bubble

Thirty years ago, theorists John Dawson and Toshiki Tajima proposed an idea for making them thousands of times smaller: surf the particles on plasma waves driven by short intense laser pulses. Since p...

Physics and Astronomy |

LANL Roadrunner models nonlinear physics of high-power lasers

For years scientists have struggled with the difficult physics of inertial confinement fusion. This is the attempt to compress a target capsule containing isotopes of hydrogen with high-powered lasers...

Physics and Astronomy |

Physicists seek to keep next-gen colliders in 1 piece

So-called 'wake fields' occur during the process of acceleration and can cause particles to fly apart.The particles are travelling at extremely high energies – and if they are subjec...

Physics and Astronomy |

Shortest flashes from ultra-hot matter

This is shown in calculations of the light emission of so-called quark-gluon plasmas, which are created in such collisions for extremely short periods of time. Under certain conditions, double flashes...

Physics and Astronomy |

Miniature X-ray source using wiggling electrons

The potential of laser technology seems inexhaustible. Fresh proof has now been presented by an international team at Munich's Cluster of Excellence "Munich Centre for Advanced Photonics&quo...

Physics and Astronomy |

Hybrid Linac-MRI system described at medical physics meeting in Anaheim

The proposed hybrid Linac-MR system promises to help doctors treat certain types of cancer by allowing them to accurately monitor moving tumors in people's lungs and other soft tissues such as th...

Physics and Astronomy |

Identifying fruit tree and ornamental plant varieties using DNA marks

Tomoki MatsuyamaResearch Unit LeaderPlant Breeding and Cell Engineering Research UnitRIKEN Advanced Science InstituteNew varieties of fruit trees and ornamental plants created thro...

Life Sciences |

Protons in the war on cancer

Proton therapy -- which uses beams of the subatomic particles to treat cancer -- is a hot topic at this year's American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) meeting, which takes place fro...

Physics and Astronomy |

‘What If’ Conversation Sparks Tiny Atom Discovery

True muonium was first theorized more than 50 years ago, but until now no one had uncovered an unambiguous method by which it could be created and observed. "We don't usually work in...

Physics and Astronomy |

NC State Researchers "Clear Away the Dust" To Get Better Look at Youngest Supernova Remnant

Their new data provides evidence that this remnant is from a type Ia supernova - the explosion of a white dwarf star - and raises questions about the ways in which magnetic fields affect the generatio...

Physics and Astronomy |

A European first as ALICE achieves energy recovery at 11 million volts

At 2am on 13 December, ALICE’s superconducting linear accelerator accelerated electrons to 99.9% of the speed of light, creating a beam with a total energy of 11 million electron volts. This was the f...

Power and Electrical Engineering |

National and International Doctoral Training

At its autumn meeting in Bonn the Grants Committee responsible for Research Training agreed to the establishment of 13 additional Research Training Groups, 7 of which are International Research Traini...

Science Education |

Physics Lab Becoming A Frontrunner in Ultrafast Laser Research

For decades, the J.R. Macdonald Laboratory at Kansas State University has been known worldwide as a center for atomic collision physics using particle accelerators. Now, researchers at the lab are wor...

Physics and Astronomy |