A new CubeSat mission called The Electron Losses and Fields Investigation, or ELFIN, will study one of the processes that allows energetic electrons to escape…
In a recent experiment at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, plasma electrons in the paths of intense laser light pulses were almost instantly accelerated…
Planet trails (in German: “Planetenwege”) are a nice way to illustrate cosmic distances and sizes within our solar system. They usually consist of nine or ten…
Should you care that scientists can control a baffling current? Their research results could someday affect your daily living.
Atoms can be cooled down using a laser, but it's important to select proper frequency and direction. The same laser can create a so-called trap for cooled down…
Scientists have succeeded in observing the first long-distance transfer of information in a magnetic group of materials known as antiferromagnets.
Quantum particles can be difficult to characterize, and almost impossible to control if they strongly interact with each other — until now.
Stars in galactic discs have long been known to wander away from their birth sites owing to a phenomenon known as “radial migration”. This movement across the…
In the future, today's electronic storage technology may be superseded by devices based on tiny magnetic structures. These individual magnetic regions…
While insulators do not conduct electrical currents, some special materials exhibit peculiar electrical properties: though not conducting through their bulk,…
Artificial intelligence is invading many fields, most recently astronomy and the search for intelligent life in the universe, or SETI.
Most substances physicists study are made up of huge numbers of particles – so large that there is essentially no difference between the behavioural properties…
Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), one of the giants of contemporary science, considered “entanglement” the most interesting property in quantum…
The team led by Prof. Dr. Tim Salditt and Prof. Dr. Sarah Köster from the Institute of X-Ray Physics “attached” small fluorescent markers to the molecules of…
A protein's folding patterns help them perform their dedicated tasks. As the real “doers” of the cell, even a tiny alteration in a protein's amino acid…
X-ray microscopes are fascinating imaging tools. They uniquely combine nanometer-size resolution with a large penetration depth: X-ray microscopy or XRM is the…
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