Beam-driven wakefield acceleration approaches are promising candidates for future large-scale machines, including X-ray free electron lasers and linear colliders, as they have the potential to improve efficiency and reduce ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 21, 2021
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Researchers in Japan have made the first observations of biological magnetoreception—live, unaltered cells responding to a magnetic field in real time. This discovery is a crucial step in understanding how animals from ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 5, 2021
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Recently, a research group from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has observed periodic electron bunch fringes induced by the femtosecond laser field.
Optics & Photonics
Dec 11, 2020
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The digital age has seen electronics, including computer chips, shrink in size at an amazing rate, with ever tinier chips powering devices like smartphones, laptops and even autonomous drones. In the wake of this progress, ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 8, 2020
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Physicists from the University of Konstanz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) and the University of Regensburg have successfully demonstrated that ultrashort electron pulses experience a quantum mechanical ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 24, 2020
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By studying the site of a spectacular stellar explosion seen in April 2020, a Chalmers-led team of scientists have used four European radio telescopes to confirm that astronomy's most exciting puzzle is about to be solved. ...
Astronomy
Nov 16, 2020
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Some supermassive black holes launch powerful beams of material, or jets, while others do not. Astronomers may now have identified why.
Astronomy
Oct 15, 2020
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Scientists in Australia have stumbled across an unusual way to observe color that had previously gone unnoticed.
Optics & Photonics
Oct 15, 2020
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New research shows the glaring light in human-altered landscapes, such as livestock pastures and crop fields, can act as a barrier to big-eyed birds, potentially contributing to their decline.
Ecology
Oct 2, 2020
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Physicists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, together with colleagues in Russia and Poland, have managed to achieve ultra-strong coupling between light and matter at room temperature. The discovery is of importance ...
General Physics
Sep 23, 2020
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