Researchers at Tel Aviv University have for the first time demonstrated the backflow of optical light propagating forward. The phenomenon, theorized more than 50 years ago by quantum physicists, has never before been demonstrated ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 6, 2020
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Scientists have demonstrated a key technology in making next-generation high-energy particle accelerators possible.
General Physics
Feb 6, 2020
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Previously, scientists knew only one type of curved optical rays—Airy beams and their derivatives. They were obtained back in 2007. Due to their physical properties, the beams can be used for manipulating small particles, ...
Nanophysics
Jan 27, 2020
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Scientists from Cornell University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have successfully demonstrated the world's first capture and reuse of energy in a multi-turn particle accelerator, ...
General Physics
Jan 21, 2020
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Atoms, molecules or even living cells can be manipulated with light beams. At TU Wien a method was developed to revolutionize such "optical tweezers".
Optics & Photonics
Nov 19, 2019
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Accelerated, charged particle beams do what light does for microscopes: illuminate matter. The more intense the beams, the more easily scientists can examine the object they are looking at. But intensity comes with a cost: ...
General Physics
Nov 15, 2019
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A new technique for continuously monitoring both the size and optical properties of individual airborne particles could offer a better way to monitor air pollution. It is especially promising for analyzing fine particulate ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 11, 2019
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Vertical air motions increase ice formation in mixed-phase clouds. This correlation was predicted theoretically for a long time, but can now be observed for the first time in nature. This research was published by a team ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 8, 2019
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Before Mu2e, there was MECO.
General Physics
Nov 6, 2019
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This ghostly image shows what can happen when an interstellar cloud passes too close to a star. Barnard's Merope Nebula, also known as IC 349, is a cloud of interstellar gas and dust traveling through the Pleiades star cluster ...
Astronomy
Oct 28, 2019
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