Physics and Astronomy
This area deals with the fundamental laws and building blocks of nature and how they interact, the properties and the behavior of matter, and research into space and time and their structures.
innovations-report provides in-depth reports and articles on subjects such as astrophysics, laser technologies, nuclear, quantum, particle and solid-state physics, nanotechnologies, planetary research and findings (Mars, Venus) and developments related to the Hubble Telescope.
Nuclear Photonics: Gamma Rays Search For Concealed Nuclear Threats
These gamma rays, called MEGa-rays (for mono-energetic gamma rays), are made by using a beam of fast-moving electrons to convert laser photons (light at a…
NASA's Swift and Hubble Probe Asteroid Collision Debris
“Collisions between asteroids create rock fragments, from fine dust to huge boulders, that impact planets and their moons,” said Dennis Bodewits, an astronomer…
3-D Terahertz Cloaking
A research team from Northwestern and Oklahoma State universities claims to be first to cloak a three-dimensional object from view in a broad range of…
Full 3-D Invisibility Cloak in Visible Light
This new area, called “transformation optics” has turned modern optical design on its ear by showing how to manipulate light in ways long thought to be…
Better Control of Microwave Heating for Experiments
Now, an international research team including chemist Scott Auerbach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has developed a new molecular-level probe to…
Measuring the distant universe in 3-D
The biggest 3-D map of the distant universe ever made, using light from 14,000 quasars – supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies billions of light…