Light reflects from a mirror, but where exactly does this reflection happen? Well, it depends, Martin van Exter and Corné Koks discovered. Their precise calculations, published in Optics Express, have applications in the ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 18, 2021
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Researchers have developed a spectroscopic microscope to enable optical measurements of molecular conformations and orientations in biological samples. The novel measurement technique allows researchers to image biological ...
Analytical Chemistry
Mar 8, 2021
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The Giant Magellan Telescope announces fabrication of the sixth of seven of the world's largest monolithic mirrors. These mirrors will allow astronomers to see farther into the universe with more detail than any other optical ...
Space Exploration
Mar 5, 2021
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A lot of our medicines and other bioactive drugs are based on chemical structures called enantiomers—molecules that are mirror images of each other and are non-superimposable. Notable among them are chiral N,N-acetals contained ...
Materials Science
Feb 9, 2021
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Since the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, scientists in the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have been hard at work characterizing its properties and hunting down the diverse ways in which ...
General Physics
Feb 9, 2021
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Microscopy is the workhorse of contemporary life science research, enabling morphological and chemical inspection of living tissue with ever-increasing spatial and temporal resolution. Even though modern microscopes are genuine ...
Optics & Photonics
Jan 21, 2021
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Scientists from the University of Bath have made a sustainable polymer using the second most abundant sugar in nature, xylose.
Polymers
Jan 11, 2021
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Since the very beginning of quantum physics, a hundred years ago, it has been known that all particles in the universe fall into two categories: fermions and bosons. For instance, the protons found in atomic nuclei are fermions, ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 14, 2020
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The world's largest solar observatory, the U.S. National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, just released its first image of a sunspot. Although the telescope is still in the final phases of completion, ...
Space Exploration
Dec 4, 2020
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Nearly all photons emitted after the Big Bang are now visible only at far-infrared wavelengths. This includes light from the cold universe of gas and dust from which stars and planets form, as well as faint signals from distant ...
General Physics
Dec 1, 2020
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