Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

European Research Unites to Advance Next-Gen Wireless Chips

New mathematical algorithms for the next radio chip generation will be developed under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Caren Tischendorf. According to Prof….

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Boston University’s Nanomachine Measures Tiny Twists Precisely

Researchers at Boston University working with collaborators in Germany, France and Korea have developed a nanoscale torsion resonator that measures miniscule…

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Exploring Primordial Antimatter: Unraveling Cosmic Mysteries

Antimatter is made up of elementary particles, each of which has the same mass as their corresponding matter counterparts –protons, neutrons and electrons –…

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Harnessing 15 Million Gigabytes of Data: Insights from CERN

Andreas Hirstius, manager of CERN Openlab and the CERN School of Computing, explains in November’s Physics World how computer scientists have risen to the…

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Hubble Space Telescope’s Perfect Ten: A Stellar Comeback

Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2),…

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Fast and Affordable Nanoscale Dimensioning with TSOM Imaging

Termed “Through-focus Scanning Optical Microscope” (TSOM) imaging, the technique has potential applications in nanomanufacturing, semiconductor process control…

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J.R. Macdonald Lab Leads the Way in Ultrafast Laser Research

For decades, the J.R. Macdonald Laboratory at Kansas State University has been known worldwide as a center for atomic collision physics using particle…

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Hubble Space Telescope Restarts Operations with Stunning Image

The image demonstrated that the camera is working exactly as it was before going offline, thereby scoring a “perfect 10” both for performance and beauty.And…

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Silicon Optical Fiber Breakthrough by Leading Scientists

Led by Professor John Ballato and including fiber pioneer Roger Stolen, the team of scientists was able to create this new fiber by employing the same…

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K-State Lab Leads Advances in Ultrafast Laser Research

For decades, the J.R. Macdonald Laboratory at Kansas State University has been known worldwide as a center for atomic collision physics using particle…

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India Launches Chandrayaan-1: A New Era in Space Exploration

Chandrayaan-1, an unmanned cuboid spacecraft, blasted off from a Northern Indian space centre shortly before dawn. It will enter the moon's orbit after 16…

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Sea Urchin Reveals Secrets of Biomineralization Science

Used to crush food, for structural support and for defense, the materials of which shells, teeth and bones are composed are the strongest and most durable in…

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"Origins", a new Franco-Chinese International Associated Laboratory in Astrophysics

First and foremost, the “Origins” LIA will be devoted to extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology, in particular the formation and evolution of galaxies, dark…

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Great08 Challenge: Advancing Gravitational Lensing Accuracy

The GRavitational lEnsing Accuracy Testing 2008 (GREAT08) PASCAL Challenge is being set by 38 scientists across 19 international institutions, with the aim of…

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Breakthrough in Laser Technology: 13 Fs Pulses Transmitted Over 1 Meter

The researchers transmitted light pulses of 13 fs duration (1 fs = 1 millionth billionth of a second) over one meter distance, with the pulses only stretching…

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New Mass Sensor Weighs Atoms with Unprecedented Precision

The CIN2 (Research Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology), is a joint centre belonging to the Spanish National Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and…

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