Physics and Astronomy

This area deals with the fundamental laws and building blocks of nature and how they interact, the properties and the behavior of matter, and research into space and time and their structures.

innovations-report provides in-depth reports and articles on subjects such as astrophysics, laser technologies, nuclear, quantum, particle and solid-state physics, nanotechnologies, planetary research and findings (Mars, Venus) and developments related to the Hubble Telescope.

A ‘new synthetic frontier’ for quantum dots

Replacing organic solvents with molten salt lets researchers grow “previously unimaginable nanocrystals”. The type of semiconductive nanocrystals known as quantum dots are both expanding the forefront of pure science and…

NRL coronagraph captures unique images of a dusty comet

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) imaging instruments on three sun-orbiting observatories have captured sequences of comet C/2023 A3, known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, as it passed between the Earth and the Sun…

Taking the “vibrational fingerprints” of molecules got 100 times faster

Scientists successfully increase the measurement rate of Raman spectroscopy, a widely used technique for identifying molecules. Researchers Takuma Nakamura, Kazuki Hashimoto, and Takuro Ideguchi of the Institute for Photon Science…

New fingerprint mass spectrometry method

… paves the way to solving the proteome. The new data-driven technique gives scientists a way to accurately measure the mass of individual proteins using nanoscale devices. Caltech scientists have…

NASA reveals prototype telescope for gravitational wave observatory

NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade, the space-based detection of gravitational waves — ripples in space-time…

Researchers succeed in taking 3D x-ray images of a skyrmion

Nanoscale spinning circles of magnetism may find broad application in microelectronic storage devices, quantum computing, and more. A difficult-to-describe nanoscale object called the magnetic skyrmion might one day yield new…

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