White powders found at known or potential crime scenes present investigators and first responders with a dilemma. Touching the powders could be dangerous or compromise the evidence, and sending samples to a lab to be identified ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 8, 2018
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How water solvates and transports protons is a fundamental question facing chemists and biologists alike and is vital to our understanding of processes such as photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
Materials Science
Aug 10, 2018
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Researchers have found a way to convert nanoparticle-coated microscopic beads into lasers smaller than red blood cells.
Nanophysics
Jun 18, 2018
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Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have successfully generated controlled electron pulses in the attosecond range. They used optical traveling waves formed by laser pulses of varying wavelengths. ...
Optics & Photonics
May 16, 2018
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A technique to manipulate electrons with light could bring quantum computing up to room temperature.
Quantum Physics
May 10, 2018
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Scientists from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) in Berlin combined state-of-the-art experiments and numerical simulations to test a fundamental assumption underlying strong-field ...
Optics & Photonics
May 4, 2018
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Sébastien Février, researcher at XLIM (CNRS/Université de Limoges), and his team demonstrated that a bench-top, optical fibre-based laser source can be used to perform infrared spectromicroscopy with a precision rivaling, ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 23, 2018
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Chemical compounds all carry distinctive absorption "fingerprints" within the mid-infrared spectral region of 2 to 12 microns. This offers an opportunity to measure and study chemicals at extremely sensitive levels but researchers ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 15, 2018
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To feed a growing population, our global food system relies on sufficient farmland. But over the past 40 years, one-third of arable land has been lost to erosion or sullied by pollution.
General Physics
Sep 7, 2017
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Data centers are the central point of many, if not most, information systems today, but the masses of wires interconnecting the servers and piled high on racks begins to resemble last year's tangled Christmas-tree lights ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 31, 2017
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