Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

New Method Boosts Nonlinear Optical Effects in Light Beams

Picture two light beams intersecting one another in space. When the beams touch one another, does the light bend? Reflect? Combine into a single beam? The…

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Ion Ping Pong Unveils Forces Between Atomic Nuclei

As reported in the journal Nature, important conclusions about the nature of the forces between the protons and neutrons in nuclei can be drawn by comparing…

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Scientists Reach Milestone for Quantum Networks

The research, done at the Georgia Institute of Technology, used a new type of optical trap that simultaneously confined both ground-state and highly-excited…

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Researchers Solve Mystery of X-Ray Light From Black Holes

In a new study, astrophysicists from The Johns Hopkins University, NASA and the Rochester Institute of Technology bridged the gap between theory and…

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Hubble Uncovers Evidence for Extrasolar Planet Under Construction

The keen vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a mysterious gap in a vast protoplanetary disk of gas and dust swirling around the nearby star TW…

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New Quantum Dot Technique Enhances Microscopy Resolution

Combining the best features of optical and scanning electron microscopy, the fast, versatile, and high-resolution technique allows scientists to view surface…

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Data Highway: Advancing Quantum Information Storage

Now, they have shown that their technique enables storage of quantum information over a sufficiently long period of time to realize global quantum networks…

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New Theory Sheds Light on Mysterious Dark Matter

This proposal, which endows dark matter particles with a rare form of electromagnetism, has been strengthened by a detailed analysis performed by a pair of…

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UCI scientists size up universe’s most lightweight dwarf galaxy

The least massive galaxy in the known universe has been measured by UC Irvine scientists, clocking in at just 1,000 or so stars with a bit of dark matter…

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'Long-awaited explanation' for mysterious effects in high-temperature superconductors

A German-French research team has constructed a new model that explains how the so-called pseudogap state forms in high-temperature superconductors. The…

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Europe’s new X-ray laser reaches important milestone

Starting in 2016, the European XFEL will generate intensive X-ray flashes, allowing scientists to investigate, for example, the atomic structure of…

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Astronomers Prepare to Uncover Earth-Like Planets

If one looks only for the shiniest pennies in the fountain, chances are one misses most of the coins because they shimmer less brightly. This, in a nutshell,…

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Quantum Teleportation Achieved Between Atomic Systems

Now the research group has succeeded in teleporting information between two clouds of gas atoms and to carry out the teleportation – not just one or a few…

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NASA Unveils Advanced Microwave Radiometer for Earth Observation

Literally years in the making, the new radiometer, which is designed to measure the intensity of electromagnetic radiation, specifically microwaves, is…

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Black Holes Found Among Earliest Stars, NASA Study Reveals

Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which observes in the infrared, researchers have concluded one of every…

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Resistivity Switch Sheds Light on Magnetism in Superconductors

“We found that the directions of smallest and largest resistivity within the conducting layers are significantly dependent on the composition of the compounds,…

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