Physics
A team of physicists has developed a theory describing how to both detect weak electrical signals and cool electrical circuits using light and something very like a nanosized loudspeaker.
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Lab scientists and international collaborators have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved, fulfilling a 45-year-old prediction and ultimately opening the door to new medicines, devices and materials.
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New work on ultracold gases may also help scientists understand high-temperature superconductors and neutron stars.
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To better understand the fundamental behavior of molecules at surfaces, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are combining the powers of neutron scattering with chemical analysis.
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In a key discovery, a team of LLNL researchers has developed the first plastic material capable of efficiently distinguishing neutrons from gamma rays, something not thought possible for the past five decades or so.
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Working with an international team, three physicists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have helped to demonstrate the feasibility of a new kind of particle accelerator.
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In movie magic, people and objects can appear or disappear or move from place to place in an instant. Now, Cornell researchers have demonstrated a similar "temporal cloak" -- albeit on a very small scale.
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Scientists have taken a crucial step toward describing thermonuclear reactions from first principles.
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Microscopic spheres form strings in surprising alignments when suspended in a viscous fluid and sheared between two plates — a finding that will affect the way scientists think about the properties of a wide variety of substances.
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Two experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have nearly eliminated the space in which the Higgs boson could dwell, scientists announced in a seminar held at CERN today.
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By focusing proton beams using high-intensity lasers, a team of scientists have discovered a new way to heat material and create new states of matter in the laboratory.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers and scientists from the French space institute IRAP are poised to begin focusing the energy of a million light bulbs on the surface of the Red Planet to help determine whether Mars was or is habitable.
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