Under pressure: Balloons for particle acceleration
Balloons can help make a space perfect for a party. Now they also can help when it comes to accelerating particles to near the speed of light.
Balloons can help make a space perfect for a party. Now they also can help when it comes to accelerating particles to near the speed of light.
General Physics
Aug 28, 2019
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It was a three-hour nighttime road trip that capped off a journey begun seven years ago.
General Physics
Aug 20, 2019
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About 10 years ago, the world's most powerful X-ray laser—the Linac Coherent Light Source—made its debut at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Now the next revolutionary X-ray laser in a class of its own, LCLS-II, ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 13, 2019
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Researchers for the first time have combined a powerful microscopy technique with automated image analysis algorithms to distinguish between healthy and metastatic cancerous tissue without relying on invasive biopsies or ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 6, 2019
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Biomedical researchers at KU Leuven have found a new way to study endometrial diseases such as endometriosis and cancer. They were able to grow three-dimensional cell structures from diseased tissue of patients. The biobank ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 1, 2019
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Quantum computers, which use light particles (photons) instead of electrons to transmit and process data, hold the promise of a new era of research in which the time needed to realize lifesaving drugs and new technologies ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 24, 2019
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The koala's nose is distinctive—it's a big black leathery rectangle in the middle of a round, gray face that's surprisingly soft to the touch. And every koala nose is unique.
Plants & Animals
Jun 5, 2019
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MIT researchers have designed a way to generate, at room temperature, more single photons for carrying quantum information. The design, they say, holds promise for the development of practical quantum computers.
Optics & Photonics
May 14, 2019
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A team of researchers at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan has found a way to synthesize small cyclodextrins (types of cyclic oligosaccharides) for the first time. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group ...
A team of scientists from Waseda University, the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and the University of Auckland have developed an integrated, all-fiber coupled-cavities quantum electrodynamics (QED) system in which a ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 1, 2019
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