The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA – http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/alma/) is the most powerful observatory in existence for mapping…
A physics experiment performed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has enhanced scientists' understanding of how free neutrons decay…
San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane is among a team of researchers who have discovered a new planet that orbits two suns simultaneously. The…
Writing in the journal Nature Photonics, a team led by Peter Rakich describes a new waveguide system that harnesses the ability to precisely control the…
Applications of quantum mechanics are often compromised by the fundamental property of quanta: any measurement inevitably modifies the measured state….
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute's Swiss Light Source in Villigen, Switzerland, have developed a new design for X-ray spectrometers that eschews a…
Seismic, thermal, and other noise sources limit LIGO to higher-frequency gravitational waves around 100 cycles per second (hertz). But finding signals from…
The research, which was recently published online in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, shows that more oxygen, carbon and iron atoms exist…
Researchers from the Institute of Molecular Science and Technologies (ISTM-CNR, Italy), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), and the University…
Nobody is perfect, but sometimes it is the defect that makes the difference. For example, the electric properties of semiconductors undergo significant changes…
Using the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at the Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab, a team of researchers has, for the first time,…
The geometry and topology of electronic states in solids plays a central role in a wide range of modern condensed-matter systems including graphene or…
The PhD student Margherita Bettinelli, of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL), together with an international…
The interaction between light and matter is of key importance in nature, the most prominent example being photosynthesis. Light-matter interactions have also…
The possibility that water and organic molecules were brought to the early Earth through impacts of objects like asteroids and comets have long been the…
To assess the effect of human activity on climate, scientists must be able to compare today's climate with that of the pre-industrial era. One important aspect…
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