News tagged with laser bombardment

Scientists cool gas by laser bombardment

Three decades ago, American and Finnish scientists came up with a very powerful method for cooling gases by "laser bombardment." Only now were physicists at the University of Bonn able to demonstrate that it actually works. ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 6




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Measuring transient x-rays with lobster eyes

(Phys.org) -- A technology that mimics the structure of a lobster's eyes is now being applied to a new instrument that could help revolutionize X-ray astronomy and keep astronauts safe on the International ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Seeing inside the nose of an aircraft

Radio signals reach pilots on board an aircraft through the "radar dome", the rounded nose of the aircraft. But if errors occur during the production of this "nose", - tiny foreign particles, drops of water ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

First-ever images of atoms moving in a molecule captured

Using a new ultrafast camera, researchers have recorded the first real-time image of two atoms vibrating in a molecule.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (22) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Lunar scientists shed light on Moon's impact history

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., have discovered that debris that caused a "lunar cataclysm" on the moon ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

MSU satellite surpasses goal; NASA taps MSU to queue up for another launch

The Montana State University satellite that rode into space on a NASA rocket has now gathered information longer than the historic U.S. satellite it was built to honor, says the director of MSU's Space Science ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists X-ray key enzyme of common pathogen crystallized in living cells

An international team of scientists has for the first time crystallised a key enzyme of the pathogen for African sleeping sickness in a living cell and investigated it with the world’s strongest X-ray laser. This new ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nanotube 'glow sticks' transform surface science tool kit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many physical and chemical processes necessary for biology and chemistry occur at the interface of water and solid surfaces. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory publishing in Nature ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fastest X-ray images of tiny biological crystals

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team headed by DESY scientists from the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) in Hamburg, Germany, has recorded the shortest X-ray exposure of a protein crystal ...

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created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 5

New technique makes it easier to etch semiconductors

Creating semiconductor structures for high-end optoelectronic devices just got easier, thanks to University of Illinois researchers.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Tools of the trade: Diamonds are forever ... for focusing intense X-rays

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diamonds can add more than sparkle and style to X-ray experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source.

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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