A single drop with the volume of a millionth of a litre is really not very large and certainly does not look like something you can do much with. However, a simple device, constructed at the Institute of Physical Chemistry ...
Materials Science
Jun 16, 2016
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Dartmouth College researchers have discovered a method to design faster pulses, offering a new way to accurately control quantum systems.
Quantum Physics
May 23, 2016
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Icy objects in our solar system have large oceans under their surfaces and here life could evolve and flourish. So says a new thesis by Jesper Lindkvist, PhD student at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics and Umeå University. ...
Space Exploration
May 19, 2016
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will look across vast distances to find the earliest stars and galaxies and study the atmospheres of mysterious worlds orbiting other stars. But the observatory also will investigate objects ...
Space Exploration
Feb 8, 2016
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Since the world's largest superconducting magnetic fusion experiment, the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, went online in December, innovative new imaging systems designed at Los Alamos National Laboratory are helping physicists ...
Plasma Physics
Jan 29, 2016
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Interconnecting different quantum systems is important for future quantum computing architectures, but has proven difficult to achieve. Researchers from the TU Delft and the University of Vienna have now realized a first ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 19, 2016
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NASA scientists have released new findings about the moon's tenuous exosphere – the thin layer of gas surrounding the moon that's one 25-trillionth the density of Earth's atmosphere. The data reveal, for the first time, ...
Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2015
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Successful technologies weave themselves into the fabric of society and essentially slip from our consciousness, as have embedded control systems. Systems with embedded computing units that interact with the physical world, ...
Engineering
Nov 13, 2015
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Unexpected shapes of mesoscale atoms—structures built of microdroplets encapsulated within microdroplets—have been created at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. The ...
General Physics
May 20, 2015
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Microsoft on Tuesday said it will open its first flagship store outside the United States in Sydney, as the technology giant expands its physical footprint to take on global rivals Apple and Samsung.
Business
Apr 21, 2015
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