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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

New Method to Study Properties of Superconductors Using Optical Tools

A researcher at the Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea), Professor Ivan Savenko, has reported a conceptually new method to study the properties of superconductors using optical tools.

27 May 2020

A New Experiment to Demonstrate the Chirality-Dependent Optical Lateral Force

Light carrying photon momentum can push and pull microparticles through momentum exchange. This momentum exchange progress generates optical forces, either attracts (conventional optical tweezers), pushes (radiation force) or pulls (pulling force) microparticles.

27 May 2020

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

Laser Wakefield Acceleration Brings Particles to High Energies

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

New Study Shows Supermassive Black Holes Actually Thrive Under Pressure

Research Opens Up New Possibilities for Topological Superconductivity

Scientists Develop Saturable Plasmonic Metasurfaces for Laser Mode Locking

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

Exploring Dynamical Behaviors of Helium-Methane Compound Under Planetary Conditions

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

New Method to Study Properties of Superconductors Using Optical Tools

A New Experiment to Demonstrate the Chirality-Dependent Optical Lateral Force

Quantum Simulators of Gauge Theory to Study Fundamental Forces of Nature

Researchers Use Trapped Ions to Demonstrate a Quantum Random Walk

New Class of Cosmic Explosions Discovered

Study Offers New Understanding of Plasma Edge Heat Loss in Tokamaks

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