Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Miniature X-Ray Source: Wiggling Electrons Break New Ground

The potential of laser technology seems inexhaustible. Fresh proof has now been presented by an international team at Munich's Cluster of Excellence “Munich…

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Twin Keck Telescopes Uncover Secrets of Dual Dust Disks

The centerpiece of the study is the Keck Interferometer Nuller (KIN), a device that combines light captured by both of the giant telescopes in a way that…

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New Prototype Detects Dark Matter in Groundbreaking Study

“One of the biggest challenges in Physics today is to discover the true nature of dark matter, which cannot be directly observed – even though it seems to make…

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Lotus-Inspired Coating Keeps Space Gear Clean and Clear

Researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., are developing a transparent coating that prevents dirt from sticking in the same way a…

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Deep Impact and Other Spacecraft Find Clear Evidence of Water on Moon

“The Deep Impact observations of the Moon not only unequivocally confirm the presence of OH/H2O on the lunar surface, but also reveal that the entire lunar…

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UC Santa Barbara Physicists Detect Quantum Correlations in Bits

The researchers showed that they could detect the quantum correlations in the results of measurements of entangled quantum bits, using a superconducting…

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Computer code gives astrophysicists first full simulation of star's final hours

But now, a team of researchers, composed of three applied mathematicians at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and two…

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Switzerland Launches Its First Satellite Into Space

Students and professors have been working very hard during the last three and a half years in order to send the concentrated cube of high technology into…

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New Vista of Milky Way Center Unveiled

Permeating the region is a diffuse haze of X-ray light from gas that has been heated to millions of degrees by winds from massive young stars – which appear to…

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New NIST Nano-Ruler Sets Some Very Small Marks

Designed to be the most accurate commercially available “meter stick” for the nano world, the new measuring tool—a calibration standard for X-ray…

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Diamonds: The Future of MRI Probes in Medical Science

The team’s work has the long-term goal of developing quantum computers, but it has borne fruit that may have more immediate application in medical science….

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A tiny, tunable well of light, and a string theorist's toolbox

A Tiny, Tunable Well of LightPhotonics, the science of using photons to carry information, promises to continue improving a wide variety of technologies, from…

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Zooming to the centre of the Milky Way — GigaGalaxy Zoom phase 2

This 34 by 20-degree wide image provides us with a view as experienced by amateur astronomers around the world. However, its incredible beauty and appeal owe…

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New NASA temperature maps provide 'whole new way of seeing the moon'

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), an unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, has returned its first data. One of the seven…

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PTB Achieves First Bose-Einstein Condensate with Calcium Atoms

This collective condition is called – named for its intellectual fathers – Bose-Einstein condensate. Physicists at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt…

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Black Holes Unveiled: Understanding Cosmic Gamma Ray Bursts

The flashes, known as gamma ray bursts, are beams of high energy radiation – similar to the radiation emitted by explosions of nuclear weapons – produced by…

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