Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

UCLA engineering researchers capture optical 'rogue waves'

Once dismissed by scientists as fanciful sailors' stories akin to sea monsters and uncharted inlands, recent observations have shown that they are a real…

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IMEC Boosts High-k Metal Gate Performance in CMOS and FinFETs

Low threshold voltage (Vt) is achieved by applying a thin dielectric cap between the gate dielectric and metal gate. In addition, the use of laser-only…

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IMEC and VUB Develop High-Performance On-Wafer Chromatograph

The device has 56 separation channels with a length of 4cm, a width of 50-150µm, and a depth of 5-18µm. The channels are packed with vertical micro-cylinders….

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Magnetic Swirls: Insights from Nobel Laureates in Physics

The 2007 physics Nobel Prize awarded achievements in the field of magnetism. When they started their fundamental research, the laureates Albert Fert and Peter…

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Light and Sound: Advancing Medical Imaging Techniques

The system uses extremely short pulses of low-energy laser light to stimulate the emission of ultrasonic acoustic waves from the tissue area being examined….

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New Frequency to Current Converter Advances Quantum Standards

The group has developed a frequency to current converter, the accuracy of which is based on the known charge of an electron and the extreme accuracy in…

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New Technique Cuts DNA Sequencing Costs to $1,000

Being able to sequence a human genome for $1,000 or less (which is the price most insurance companies are willing to pay) could open a new era in personal…

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Explore the Largest Digital Survey of the Milky Way

Conducted by looking at light emitted by hydrogen ions, using the Isaac Newton Telescope on La Palma, the survey contains stunning red images of nebulae and…

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Geminid Meteor Shower: December’s Stunning Night Sky Event

At its peak and in a clear, dark sky between 50 and 100 ‘shooting stars’ or meteors may be visible each hour. Meteors are the result of small particles…

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Light is shed on new fibre's potential to change technology

The fibre can change a pulse of light with a narrow range of wavelengths into a spectrum hundreds of times broader and ranging from visible light to the…

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Voyager 2 Confirms Squashed Shape of Solar System

However, Voyager 2 took a different path, entering this region, called the heliosheath, on August 30, 2007. Because Voyager 2 crossed the heliosheath boundary,…

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Astronomers Unite for Red Sky at Night Discovery

A collaboration of over 50 astronomers, The IPHAS consortium, led from the UK, with partners in Europe, USA, Australia, has released today (10th December 2007)…

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Light sheds on new fibre's potential to change technology

The fibre can change a pulse of light with a narrow range of wavelengths into a spectrum hundreds of times broader and ranging from visible light to the…

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World’s Most Powerful Microscopes Unveiled by DTU

The most powerful group of microscopes in the world was inaugurated friday by ship-owner Mr Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller. DTU’s Center for Electron Nanoscopy (DTU…

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Hazy Red Sunset Detected on Extrasolar Planet’s Atmosphere

The team, led by Frédéric Pont from the Geneva University Observatory in Switzerland, used Hubble’s ACS to make the first detection of hazes in the atmosphere…

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Testing time for instrument on Hubble's successor

MIRI is one of four sophisticated instruments onboard which will study the early universe and properties of materials forming around new born stars in…

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