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Researchers Show that Trains of Laser Pulses Could Drive Compact Particle Accelerators

A team led by Professor Simon Hooker's group at Oxford have shown that very compact particle accelerators could be driven by trains of laser pulses travelling through a plasma (an ionized gas).

16 Aug 2017

New Graphene-Based Device Paves Way for Spin Transistors and Spin-Based Logic

University of Groningen scientists led by physics professor Bart van Wees have created a graphene-based device, in which electron spins can be injected and detected with unprecedented efficiency.

16 Aug 2017

Recent Discovery Provides Best View of Inner Jets of Supermassive Black Holes

Astronomers using Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) have found evidence for a bizarre lensing system in space, in which a large assemblage of stars is magnifying a much more distant galaxy containing a jet-spewing supermassive black hole.

16 Aug 2017

NASA's New Mission to Provide Unprecedented Look at Cosmic Ray Particles

A new experiment set for an Aug. 14 launch to the International Space Station will provide an unprecedented look at a rain of particles from deep space, called cosmic rays, that constantly showers our planet.

14 Aug 2017

Researchers Test Standard Quantum Theory with Massive Molecules

In quantum mechanics particles can behave as waves and take many paths through an experiment, even when a classical marble could only take one of them at any time.

14 Aug 2017

Australian Scientists Explore the Mystery Behind Galaxy’s Spin Rate

Scientists have discovered why heavyweight galaxies living in a dense crowd of galaxies tend to spin more slowly than their lighter neighbours.

11 Aug 2017

Updated Computer Code Predicts Behavior of Highly Energetic Atomic Nuclei in Plasma Experiments

A computer code used by physicists around the world to analyze and predict tokamak experiments can now approximate the behavior of highly energetic atomic nuclei, or ions, in fusion plasmas more accurately than ever.

11 Aug 2017

Innovative Sensing Technique for Developing Advanced Quantum Sensors

An innovative type of sensing technique has been developed by researchers at RIT. The technique involves capturing data at higher accuracy than it is probable at present, and it also assures the development of compact, inexpensive, and light-weight sensors.

10 Aug 2017

FAU Astronomers Discover New Class of Variable Dwarf Star

In the middle of the large Chilean Atacama desert, a team of Polish astronomers are patiently monitoring millions of celestial bodies night after night with the help of a modern robotic telescope.

10 Aug 2017

Innovative View on the Existence of Dark Matter

It is a known fact that only a small fragment of the universe comprises of visible matter and that the remaining vast regions are hidden from human eyes and include dark energy and dark matter. Although knowledge on dark energy is highly limited, various experiments and theories on the presence of dark matter, formulated to detect these unexplored particles, do exist.

9 Aug 2017