Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Diamond Anvil Cell Breakthroughs: Ultra-Fast Nanoshocks Unveiled

But Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicists are using an ultra-fast laser-based technique they dubbed “nanoshocks” for something entirely different….

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Nano-Light Mill Powers Micro Disk Innovation at UC Berkeley

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have created the…

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Infrared Cameras Enhance Safety by Preventing Collisions

An emergency stop prevents a collision with the animal just in time. In such situations infrared cameras could provide a better level of safety. Objects at…

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Measuring unconventionality

Achieving superconductivity at room temperature has represented one of the holy grails of physics for decades. A practical material with zero electrical…

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UM Scientists Advance Quantum Computing & Energy Conversion Tech

Published in the July 1 issue of Nature, their research builds on work by the same Maryland research team published in March in the journal Science (3-26-10)….

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Exploring the Bridge to Quantum Innovations in Physics

Science fiction has nothing over quantum physics when it comes to presenting us with a labyrinthine world that can twist your mind into knots when you try to…

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RXTE Homes in on a Black Hole's Jets

That's the big picture, but the details have been elusive. For example, do most of the X-rays arise from the jets? The disk? Or from a high-energy region on…

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New Planet Discovered Orbiting Sun-Like Star 300 Times Farther

A planet about eight times the mass of Jupiter has been confirmed to orbit a Sun-like star that's some 300 times farther from its own star than Earth is from…

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'Galactic archaeologists' find origin of Milky Way's ancient stars

Scientists at Durham's Institute for Computational Cosmology and their collaborators at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, in Germany, and Groningen…

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Scientists Identify Minor Barrier in Integrated Circuit Speed

According to Maxime Darnon, a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research, in order to continue increasing the speed of integrated…

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UV Rays Create Life Precursors in Titan-like Atmosphere

The first experimental evidence showing how atmospheric nitrogen can be incorporated into organic macromolecules is being reported by a University of Arizona…

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New Method Accelerates Production of Stable Glass Films

Research reported in the Journal of Chemical Physics, published by the American Institute of Physics (AIP), details the production of highly stable glass films…

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Diamonds: Key to Advancing Quantum Computing Insights

Now a team of researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical…

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UV Sparks Life Precursors in Titan-Like Atmospheres

The finding indicates what organic molecules might be found on Titan, the moon of Saturn that scientists think is a model for the chemistry of pre-life Earth.Earth and Titan are the only known planetary-sized bodies that have thick, predominantly nitrogen atmospheres, said Hiroshi Imanaka, who conducted the research while a member of UA's chemistry and biochemistry department….

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First Monolithic Terahertz Solid-State Transceiver Unveiled

Sandia National Laboratories researchers have taken the first steps toward reducing the size and enhancing the functionality of devices in the terahertz (THz)…

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Physicists Achieve Nanometre-Level Quantum State Insight

Physicists from Marburg and the US have succeeded in characterizing the quantum state of a system consisting of millions of particles by bringing experimental…

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