by The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences Using X-ray laser pulses, the structure of matter...
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The quantum vibrations in atoms hold a miniature world of information. If scientists can accurately measure these atomic oscillations, and...
At the heart of every resonator—be it a cello, a gravitational wave detector, or the antenna in your cell phone—there...
In the 2016 sci-fi movie “Arrival,” a linguist and a theoretical physicist race against time to communicate with endangered extraterrestrial...
The question of how the chemical composition of a protein—the amino acid sequence—determines its 3D structure has been one of...
At CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), studies of rare processes allow scientists to infer the presence of heavy particles, including...
The latest technology to study glaciers fits in a backpack and can be carried up steep mountains. University of Oregon...
The paradox startled scientists at the U.S Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) more than a dozen...
Investigation of a possibly critical issue with twisty magnetic stellarators, promising candidates to serve as models for a U.S. fusion...
Like corn kernels popping in a frying pan, tiny grains of dust may hop around on the surface of asteroids,...
Deep below the Black Hills of South Dakota in the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), an innovative and uniquely sensitive...

