Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Improved Radio Wave Detection From Space: A New Breakthrough

Together with their Spanish colleagues from the Instituto Geográfico Nacional and the University of Cantabria, researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for…

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NJIT's new solar telescope unveils the complex dynamics of sunspots' dark cores

Their research is being presented this week at the first Triennial Earth-Sun Summit meeting between the American Astronomical Society's Solar Physics Division…

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Exploring the Trillion-Frame-Per-Second Camera Innovation

When a crystal lattice is excited by a laser pulse, waves of jostling atoms can travel through the material at close to one sixth the speed of light, or…

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Technologies Powering the Ambitious MMS Mission

“To get to this point in time, we had to overcome a number of engineering challenges,” said Brent Robertson, the deputy project manager of the Magnetospheric…

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Direct Measurement of Cyclotron Radiation from Single Electrons

A year before Albert Einstein came up with the special theory of relativity, or E=mc2, physicists predicted the existence of something else: cyclotron…

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Robotically discovering Earth's nearest neighbors

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California Observatories, and Tennessee State…

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NJIT's new solar telescope peers deep into the sun to track the origins of space weather

Scientists at NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) have captured the first high-resolution images of the flaring magnetic structures known as solar flux…

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Weighing — and imaging — molecules one at a time

“You can imagine that with large protein complexes made from many different, smaller subunits there are many ways for them to be assembled. These can end up…

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Through the galaxy by taxi – The Dream Chaser Space Utility Vehicle

The ultimate aim is to construct a multi-mission-capable space utility vehicle, while accelerating the overall development process for this critical capability…

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New Techniques for Shaping Perfect Waves in Nanotechnology

In their recent publication in “Nature Nanotechnology”, NIM graduate Florian Schülein and his supervisor NIM-Professor Hubert Krenner at the chair of…

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Fluorescence Microscopy Reveals Volvox Embryo Morphogenesis

Using fluorescence microscopy to observe the Volvox embryos, the researchers were able to test a mathematical model of morphogenesis – the origin and…

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New 3-D Imaging Technique Enhances Optical Tweezers Accuracy

Daejeon, Republic of Korea, April 23, 2015–Optical tweezers have been used as an invaluable tool for exerting micro-scale force on microscopic particles and…

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Nondestructive 3D Imaging of Cells Using Sound Technology

Much like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is able to scan the interior of the human body, the emerging technique of “picosecond ultrasonics,” a type of…

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Tau Ceti: Is It the Next Earth in Our Search for Life?

As the search continues for Earth-size planets orbiting at just the right distance from their star, a region termed the habitable zone, the number of…

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Earth-Sized Telescope Aims to Photograph Black Hole’s Edge

Astronomers building an Earth-sized virtual telescope capable of photographing the event horizon of the black hole at the centre of our Milky Way have extended…

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Exploding Stars Reveal Secrets of Earth’s Thunderclouds

How is lightning initiated in thunderclouds? This is difficult to answer – how do you measure electric fields inside large, dangerously charged clouds? It was…

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