Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring Light Speed Innovations in Imaging Technology

From the use of adaptive optics to catch perfect images of distant galaxies or detailed representations inside bio-specimens of, for example, mouse embryos, to…

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ESA Campaign Unveils Future Sentinel-3 Imagery Insights

For all new Earth observation missions, a crucial part of the development process, after defining and designing the instruments, is to assess the future…

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Fermi Telescope Uncovers Pulsing Gamma-Ray Sources

Using the Large Area Telescope (LAT), the primary instrument on NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope satellite, the discoveries were made by conducting blind…

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High in Sodium: Highly Charged Tungsten Ions May Diagnose Fusion Energy Reactors

Tungsten—having the highest melting point of any metal—will be used in some high-strength structural components in the experimental ITER fusion reactor under…

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Ben-Gurion University Develops Promising Thin Films for Solar

The films were synthesized at BGU by Prof. Yuval Golan and PhD student Anna Osherov of the Department of Materials Engineering and the Ilse Katz Institute for…

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Precision Measurement of Optical Purity in Laser Production

During the production of functional laser optics as well as for the development of innovative products in the optics industry it is necessary to precisely…

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Lasers Create Underwater Sound for Enhanced Acoustic Applications

The new acoustic source has the potential to expand and improve both Naval and commercial underwater acoustic applications, including undersea communications,…

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Queen’s physicist unlocking the mysteries of neighbouring galaxies

“The encounter forever changed the structure of the galaxies,” says Dr. Widrow, a professor of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy at Queen’s. “The…

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Magnetic monopoles detected in a real magnet for the first time

Magnetic monopoles are hypothetical particles proposed by physicists that carry a single magnetic pole, either a magnetic North pole or South pole. In the…

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First-Ever Observation of Magnetic Monopoles Unveiled

Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie (HZB) have, in cooperation with colleagues from Dresden (Germany), St. Andrews (UK),…

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Hurricane Jimena: Powerful Storm Captured from Space

Around the time of the acquisition, Jimena had maximum sustained winds of nearly 250 km/h and was just short of being classified as a Category 5 storm – the…

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XMM-Newton Reveals Mysterious Celestial Object’s Secrets

Astronomers have been on the trail of this mysterious object since 1997 when they discovered that something was giving off X-rays near the bright star HD…

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'NanoPen' may write new chapter in nanotechnology manufacturing

In the new study, Ming Wu and colleagues point out that researchers have already developed several different techniques for producing patterns of…

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Mothball Component Found in Deep-Space Clouds, Study Reveals

Well, not exactly, but researchers from the University of Georgia have just shown for the first time that one component of clouds emitting unusual infrared…

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University Researcher Explores Plasma at 100,000 Degrees

Using one of the greatest sources of radiation energy created by man, University of Nevada, Reno researcher and faculty member Roberto Mancini is studying…

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Researchers Design New Graphene-based, Nanomaterial with Magnetic Properties

The team of researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University; Peking University in Beijing, China; the Chinese Academy of Science in Shanghai, China; and…

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