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50-Meter Laser Experiment Sets Record
Where’s Guinness when you need him? It happened at UMD’s Energy Research Facility—Physics Professor Howard…
Colorado Scientists Laser Focused on Toilet Plumes, Flush with Success
Public toilets are often not pleasant places to go, but our bathrooms at home are dirtier than you think.
A team…
Researchers Create Supervillain Diamond Mirror for High-Powered Laser
Did you watch those superhero cartoons as a kid? The ones where the supervillain had a crazy plan to destroy the…
Crystal Structures in Super Slow Motion
Physicists from Göttingen claim that they are the first to succeed in filming a phase transition with extremely…
Multi-watt Terahertz Laser Breakthrough Uses Phase-Locking Technique
Terahertz lasers can be used to detect explosives and chemical warfare agents or to evaluate plasma densities.…
Noise Spectroscopy Technique Could Lead to Smaller, Faster, Cheaper Spintronic…
From helping in the search for life on exoplanets to triggering chemical reactions, diamond anvil cells have been…
This Printer Creates Detailed Digital 3D Holograms
Over the past 15 years, researchers at Ultimate Holography in France have been working to build a hologram printer…
New Lasers Fit on a Microchip
Engineers have tried to create imaging technology using terahertz radiation for some time, only to be stymied by…
If You Hit an Ultra-thin Magnet with a Laser…
When you hit an ultra-thin magnet with a laser, it abruptly de-magnetizes. Imagine the magnet on your refrigerator…
Levitating Objects Using Only Light
Levitation may sound like the stuff of magic shows or New Age gurus, but California Institute of Technology…