Scientists gain an unprecedented view of irradiated nuclear fuel In a feat requiring perseverance, world-leading technology, and no small amount of caution, scientists have used intense X-rays to inspect irradiated nuclear fuel. The imaging, led […]
Clocking electron movements inside an atom Hard X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) have delivered intense, ultrashort X-ray pulses for over a decade. One of the most promising applications of XFELs is in biology, where researchers can […]
Engineers find a way to control chemical catalysts with sculpted light Like a person breaking up a cat fight, the role of catalysts in a chemical reaction is to hurry up the process—and come out […]
A new way to look for gravitational waves In a paper published today in Physical Review Letters, Valerie Domcke of CERN and Camilo Garcia-Cely of DESY report on a new technique to search for gravitational waves—the […]
New state of matter in one-dimensional quantum gas As the story goes, the Greek mathematician and tinkerer Archimedes came across an invention while traveling through ancient Egypt that would later bear his name. It was […]
Could we harness energy from black holes? A remarkable prediction of Einstein’s theory of general relativity—the theory that connects space, time, and gravity—is that rotating black holes have enormous amounts of energy available to be […]