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Scientists Use Ultrafast Laser Flashes to Generate, Measure Fastest Electric Current

By using ultrafast laser flashes, scientists at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics generated and measured the fastest electric current inside a solid material.

21 Oct 2016

UA Astronomers Detect Ultraluminous X-ray Bursts in Two Separate Galaxies

Space energy anomalies more than 50 million light years from our galaxy are creating conditions that should be destroying stars, but instead are regenerating them, according to an astronomer at The University of Alabama.

21 Oct 2016

Hyperloop UC Pod Achieves Successful Magnetic Levitation

The whirring sound of Hyperloop UC's hover engines filled the conference room as an anxious crowd shuffled closer for a better view.

21 Oct 2016

Scientists Track Solar Wave Traveling Up into Sun’s Atmosphere from Sunspot

While it often seems unvarying from our viewpoint on Earth, the sun is constantly changing. Material courses through not only the star itself, but throughout its expansive atmosphere.

21 Oct 2016

ICFO Researchers Take Snapshots of Molecular Bond Breakup in Acetylene

Imagine what it would be like to watch how the individual atoms of molecules rearrange during a chemical reaction to form a new substance, or to see the compounds of DNA move, rearrange and replicate.

21 Oct 2016

New Techniques Enhance Quantum Properties of Superlattices

A method to improve carbon superlattices for quantum electronic device applications has been discovered by researchers at the Nanoscale Transport Physics Laboratory from the School of Physics at the University of the Witwatersrand.

20 Oct 2016

HI4PI Project Reveals Fine Details of Structures Between Stars in the Milky Way

Australian scientists have worked with researchers in Germany to create the most detailed map of the Milky Way, using the world's largest radio telescopes.

20 Oct 2016

Study Obtains Sharpest Ever Images of Violent Wind Collision in One of Heaviest Stars in the Galaxy

A revolutionary study involving researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy (MPIfR) in Germany, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, and NASA in the USA, has obtained the sharpest ever images of one of the heaviest stars in our Galaxy.

20 Oct 2016

Breakthrough Research Simplifies Production Process of Narrowband Biphotons

Entangled photon pairs, termed as biphotons, have been the benchmark tool for experimental quantum optics. The quantum-network protocols based on photon-atom interfaces have stimulated a great demand for single photons with bandwidth comparable to or narrower than the atomic natural linewidth.

20 Oct 2016

Researchers Set Out to Test LIGO's Discovery of Gravitational Waves

After the first direct detection of gravitational waves that was announced last February by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and made news all over the world, Luciano Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) and Cecilia Chirenti (Federal University of ABC in Santo André, Brazil) set out to test whether the observed signal could have been a gravastar or not.

20 Oct 2016