Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Wind Turbine Structures: Impact on Wind Farm Efficiency

Offshore wind power generation has become an increasingly promising source of renewable energy. Much about the aerodynamic effects of larger wind farms,…

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Chinese Team Achieves Breakthrough in Super-Resolution Nanoscopy

A Chinese research team has developed an advanced imaging technique to achieve super-resolution microscopy at unprecedented speeds and with many fewer images….

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First Mathematical Proof for Turbulence Law Unveiled

What if engineers could design a better jet with mathematical equations that drastically reduce the need for experimental testing? Or what if weather…

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Cheers! Maxwell's electromagnetism extended to smaller scales

It is difficult to imagine, as this treatise revolutionized our fundamental understanding of electric fields, magnetic fields, and light. The twenty original…

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Unveiling Solar Wind Secrets with Parker Solar Probe

The young solar wind

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Weizmann Physicists Capture Electrons Flowing Like Water

From roaring waves to swirling whirlpools, the flow of a liquid can be extremely rich. Such varied phenomena are the result of the many collisions that occur…

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Ultrafast Microscopy Reveals Single Nanocrystals Insights

Ultrafast microscopy studies entirely rely on detecting nanoparticles or single molecules with luminescence techniques, which require efficient emitters to…

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Switchable Plasmons in Plastics: A Breakthrough in Nanoantennas

Researchers in the Organic Photonics and Nano-optics goup at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics have developed optical nanoantennas made from a conducting…

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New Ion Technology Boosts Precision in Laser Spectroscopy

Laser spectroscopy of neutral atoms and singly charged ions has reached astonishing precision by merit of a chain of technological advances during the past…

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Electronic map reveals 'rules of the road' in superconductor

Using a clever technique that causes unruly crystals of iron selenide to snap into alignment, Rice University physicists have drawn a detailed map that reveals…

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New Experiment Simplifies Understanding of Magnetic Resonance

Physicists at University of California, Riverside, have designed an experiment to explain the concept of magnetic resonance. The project was carried out by…

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Exploring the Birth of Photoelectrons and Light-Matter Interaction

The interaction between light and matter is the basis of both many fundamental phenomena and various practical technologies.

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission explains Bennu's mysterious particle events

The OSIRIS-REx team first observed a particle ejection event in images captured by the spacecraft's navigation cameras taken on Jan. 6, just a week after the…

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Strong Lasers Advance Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research

Nuclear physics usually involves high energies, as illustrated by experiments to master controlled nuclear fusion. One of the problems is how to overcome the…

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Novel Pressure Measurement Method Enhances Scientific Accuracy

Scientists from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have implemented a novel pressure measurement method, quasi as a byproduct of the work on the…

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Swiss Space Telescope CHEOPS Launching December 17, 2019

CHEOPS (short for CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) consists of a space telescope developed and assembled by the University of Bern, in collaboration with…

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