Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Amplifying Optical Signals in Titanium Nitride Nanoantennas

The coherent amplification of a localized optical signal within a planar titanium nitride nanoantenna has been achieved by scientists of Kazan Federal…

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Graduate Student’s Unique Simulation of Magnetic Reconnection

The new simulation captures the physics of magnetic reconnection, the breaking apart and snapping together of the magnetic field lines in plasma that occurs…

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High-Speed Quantum Memory: Boosting Photon Data Transfer

Even today, fast data transfer in telecommunication networks employs short light pulses. Ultra broadband technology uses optical fiber links through which…

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Star Formation Boosts Galactic Cores Like Yeast in Bread

Astronomers found that active star formation upswells galaxies, like yeast helps bread rise. Using three powerful telescopes on the ground and in orbit, they…

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Enhancing Light Quality: Innovations in Electron Spin Technology

For a number of years, scientists have been working on using electron spins to store and process information. A possible approach is to use a quantum system in…

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High-Speed Quantum Memory: Boosting Photon Data Transfer

Even today, fast data transfer in telecommunication networks employs short light pulses. Ultra broadband technology uses optical fiber links through which…

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Electrons on Waves: A New Era for Electron Accelerators

Conventional electron accelerators have become an indispensable tool in modern research. The extremely bright radiation generated by synchrotrons, or free…

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First Imaging of Free Nanoparticles Using High-Intensity Laser

In a joint research project, scientists from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI), the Technische Universität Berlin…

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The doubly magic nucleus of lead-208 — it spins, though it shouldn't!

We generally imagine atomic nuclei to be more or less spherical, but always relatively chaotic, clusters of protons and neutrons. Experiments at the Argonne…

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Newly Discovered Accelerated Binary Pulsar Shakes Up Astronomy

Although most of the more than 2,500 pulsars known are solitary objects, a few are found in tight binary systems. The discovery of the first of these, the…

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NASA's SDO captures image of mid-level flare

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event.

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Aeroices: Discovering Ultrawlow-Density Ice Phases

Water has many ice phases that form under different pressure and temperature conditions. The effects of positive pressure have been explored extensively, with…

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'Extreme' telescopes find the second-fastest-spinning pulsar

A pulsar is the core of a massive star that exploded as a supernova. In this stellar remnant, also called a neutron star, the equivalent mass of half a million…

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Exploring Anti-Skyrmions: The Future of Magnetic Data Storage

Most digital data is stored in the cloud as magnetic bits within massive numbers of magnetic disk drives. Over the past several decades these magnetic bits…

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New Equatorial Jet Discovered in Venusian Atmosphere

Venus rotates westward with a very low angular speed; it takes 243 Earth days to rotate once. The planet's atmosphere rotates in the same direction but at much…

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Hubble Finds Water Clues on TRAPPIST-1 Planets

On 22 February 2017 astronomers announced the discovery of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, 40 light-years away [1]….

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