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Study Investigates Properties of Stars During Early Evolutionary Phases

A three-year study was performed on Westerlund 2—a huge, crowded, and young star cluster—by using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

29 May 2020

Fast Radio Bursts Help Solve the Mystery of “Missing” Matter

Using mysterious fast radio bursts, astronomers have successfully solved a decades-old enigma of the “missing matter,” which was long projected to be present in the Universe but never identified, until now.

28 May 2020

Laser Wakefield Acceleration Brings Particles to High Energies

Based at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) offers high-brightness laser and electron beams to users and provides plenty of opportunities for students like Prabhjot Kaur to gain knowledge.

28 May 2020

Super Collider, Laser Spectroscopy Used to Measure Short-Lived Radioactive Molecule

Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have combined the power of a super collider with techniques of laser spectroscopy to precisely measure a short-lived radioactive molecule, radium monofluoride, for the first time.

28 May 2020

New Study Shows Supermassive Black Holes Actually Thrive Under Pressure

A new, Yale-led study shows that some supermassive black holes actually thrive under pressure.

28 May 2020

Research Opens Up New Possibilities for Topological Superconductivity

Topological insulators represent a key area of research because they could potentially be used as superconductors in the electronics of the future.

27 May 2020

Scientists Develop Saturable Plasmonic Metasurfaces for Laser Mode Locking

Plasmonic metasurfaces are artificial 2D sheets of plasmonic unit cells repeated in a subwavelength array, which give rise to unexpected wave properties that do not exist in nature.

27 May 2020

New Scheme to Efficiently Generate Near-Single-Cycle Mid-Infrared Pulses in Plasmas

The invention of chirped pulse amplification technique by Strickland and Mourou in 1985 has boosted the peak power of ultrashort laser pulses to an unprecedented level, which have found broad applications in fundamental science, industry and medicine.

27 May 2020

Exploring Dynamical Behaviors of Helium-Methane Compound Under Planetary Conditions

The inner mantles of icy giant planets such as Uranus and Neptune are mainly composed by water, ammonia and methane, while their atmospheres are made of hydrogen and helium.

27 May 2020

Next-Generation Laser Facilities Could Lead to a New Era for Studying Plasmas

The subject of the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics, chirped pulse amplification is a technique that increases the strength of laser pulses in many of today's highest-powered research lasers.

27 May 2020