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Planetary Sciences May 11, 2023

Exploring the soundscapes of other planets

You may know how other planets look, like the rust orange, dusty surface of Mars or the vibrant teal of Uranus. But what do those planets sound like?

Optics & Photonics Mar 20, 2023

Direct field-to-pattern monolithic design of holographic metasurface

Metasurfaces, as two-dimensional metamaterials, display fascinating ability in electromagnetic (EM) modulation within a sub-wavelength scale, opening up a new way for manipulating the properties of EM wave in a plane. Owing ...

Astronomy Mar 2, 2023

An eyeglasses prescription for Christiaan Huygens after 330 years

Christiaan Huygens built excellent lenses in the 17th century, but his telescopes lacked sharpness in comparison with what was possible at that time. In a recent study, Dr. Alex Pietrow, researcher at the Leibniz Institute ...

Optics & Photonics Jan 9, 2023

Tailoring spatiotemporal dynamics of plasmonic vortices

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances discusses tailoring spatiotemporal dynamics of plasmonic vortices.

General Physics Dec 22, 2022

Three time dimensions, one space dimension: Relativity of superluminal observers in 1+3 spacetime

How would our world be viewed by observers moving faster than light in a vacuum? Such a picture would be clearly different from what we encounter every day. "We should expect to see not only phenomena that happen spontaneously, ...

Astronomy Nov 21, 2022

Astrophysicists chronicle the history of mathematical cosmology

RUDN University astrophysicists have gathered the most important discoveries of modern cosmology from 1917 to our time. The collected data became an introduction to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A in two ...

Space Exploration Sep 28, 2022

Scientists depict Dragonfly landing site on Saturn moon Titan

When NASA's 990-pound Dragonfly rotorcraft reaches the Selk crater region—the mission's target touchdown spot—on Saturn's moon Titan in 2034, Cornell's Léa Bonnefoy will have helped to make it a smooth landing.

General Physics Sep 28, 2022

Physicists find way to control detonation wave in promising new type of engine

Skoltech researchers have theoretically predicted synchronization—a kind of self-regulation—in detonation waves. The discovery could help tame this inherently chaotic process so as to stabilize combustion in a rotating ...

Planetary Sciences Sep 19, 2022

Mars is mighty in first Webb observations of Red Planet

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured its first images and spectra of Mars Sept. 5. The telescope, an international collaboration with ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), provides a unique perspective ...

Planetary Sciences Jun 2, 2022

NASA's DAVINCI mission to take the plunge through massive atmosphere of Venus

In a paper recently published in The Planetary Science Journal, NASA scientists and engineers give new details about the agency's Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (DAVINCI) mission, ...

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