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.
Solar mystery solved
Its recent turmoil is particularly newsworthy because the Sun was very quiet for an unusually long time. Astronomers had a tough time explaining the extended…
NASA's Glory Satellite scheduled for launch March 4
The March 4 liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., is targeted for 5:09:43 a.m. EST, in the middle of a 48-second launch window. Spacecraft separation…
OFC/NFOEC 2011: Advances in wireless, data centers, cloud computing, network capacity
The Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) is the premier telecom meeting where experts…
Development Team Achieves One Terabit per Second Data Rate on a Single Integrated Photonic Chip
With worldwide Internet data traffic increasing by 50 percent each year, telecommunications companies that handle this digital torrent must be able to…
Silicon Chip "Replaces" Rare Earths
However, their use for this purpose can be optimised and thereby reduced. This has been demonstrated in computer simulations by a Special Research Program…
Direct electronic readout of 'artificial atoms'
Through his participation, the research team from Bochum, Duisburg-Essen, and Hamburg now has succeeded in an energy-state occupancy readout of those…