News tagged with laser beams
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A Mars Rover Named 'Curiosity'
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you found your grandmother's diary, tattered and dust covered, up in the attic, would you read it? Of course you would. Granny was a pistol! Brush off the dust, open up the little book, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Tailoring the optical dipole force for use on molecules
(PhysOrg.com) -- "Scientists have been working with dipole fields for quite some time," Peter Barker tells PhysOrg.com. "However, most of the work is focused on very small particles, like atoms, or on larger particles, such a ...
Oct 29, 2009 |
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European astroparticle physicists to celebrate 100 years of cosmic ray experiments
From 10 to 17 October 2009, in France, Italy, Spain and many other countries, astroparticle physicists will meet the public to reveal some of the most exciting mysteries of the Universe. Within the first European Week of ...
Oct 02, 2009 |
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Nanotechnology gets a new light touch
(PhysOrg.com) -- Building the super-fast computers of the future has just become much easier thanks to an advance by Australian researchers that lets them grab hold of tiny electronics components and probe ...
Oct 02, 2009 |
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Smoke on the water -- and in the microphone?
(AP) -- What do you get if you combine a smoke machine, some tubing, a laser pointer, a fan and a piece of toilet paper? Answer: a microphone unlike any other.
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Magnetism observed in gas for the first time
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, MIT scientists have observed ferromagnetism in an atomic gas, addressing the decades-old question of whether gases could show properties similar to a magnet made of iron or nickel. Specifically, ...
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Atoms don't dance the 'Bose Nova'
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hanns-Christoph Naegerl's research group at the Institute for Experimental Physics, Austria, has investigated how ultracold quantum gases behave in lower spatial dimensions. They successfully ...
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Toward limitless energy: National Ignition Facility focus of ACS symposium (w/ Video)
Chemists are preparing to play an important but often unheralded role in determining the success of one of the largest and most important scientific experiments in history — next year's initial attempts at ...
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Multi-laboratory study sizes up nanoparticle sizing
As a result of a major inter-laboratory study, the standards body ASTM International has been able to update its guidelines for a commonly used technique for measuring the size of nanoparticles in solutions. The study, which ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Panasonic Develops High Efficiency CRT Recycling Technology Using Laser
Panasonic has developed a recycling technology using laser beams to separate the front panel and back part (funnel) of a cathode ray tube (CRT) used in TV sets.
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Laser-created temporal lens could lead to movies of molecular processes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Finding a way to observe and record the behavior of matter at the molecular level has long been a holy grail among physicists. That ability could open the door to a wide range of applications ...
Jun 29, 2009 |
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A sonic boom in the world of lasers
It was an idea born out of curiosity in the physics lab, but now a new type of ‘laser’ for generating ultra-high frequency sound waves instead of light has taken a major step towards becoming a unique and highly useful 21st ...
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Portable Precision: A New Type of Atomic Clock
The most accurate atomic clocks in the world are based on the output of cesium atoms. These ultra-precise fountain clocks measure the frequency and time interval of seconds by using a fountain-like movement of cesium atoms. ...
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Physicists Propose New Ultracold Scheme for Scalable Quantum Information Processing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since 1994, when Peter Shor famously showed that a quantum computer could factor large numbers exponentially faster than any current classical algorithm, physicists have been investigating ...
Jun 03, 2009 |
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World's largest laser opens (w/Video)
Scientists for decades have been hunting for ways to harness the enormous force of the sun and stars to supply energy here on Earth. The National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory may spark the light ...
May 29, 2009 |
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