220-second X-ray scan delivers images 27 times faster than conventional method
Researchers have demonstrated a new X-ray technique that can produce detailed images and reveal a material’s chemical properties…
Astronomers find evidence of supermassive black holes ejected from the centers of galaxies
A study of 104,688 quasars found a pattern consistent with supermassive black holes recoiling after mergers.Larger estimated velocity…
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS lost meters of its surface, giving scientists a depth scale for its chemistry
Spectroscopy can reveal which gases and refractory species leave a comet, but those measurements do not by themselves…
Nuclear clocks are finally ticking
The world’s most precise clocks currently keep time using electrons. A laser excites electrons between two energy…
Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp. launches stRAMos™ — A breakthrough SRS, Stimulated Raman microscope based on photothermal detection
Photothermal Spectroscopy Corp. today announced the release of stRAMos™, a next-generation Raman microscope based on photothermal detection of…
Scientists Push Molecules on a Surface to the Ultimate Quantum Limit
Artistic representation of an optically excited molecule on a surface of a crystal. Credit: MPL, Alexey Shkarin An…
Three Supermassive Black Holes Found in a Galaxy From the Dawn of the Universe
An AI-generated visualization of a distant galaxy, containing, besides dust, gas, and young stars, three massive, active black…
Researchers Map the Hidden 3D Geometry of a Quantum Wavefunction
An illustration of how researchers used state-of-the-art photoelectron spectroscopy (left-hand side) with a lab-based soft-X-ray light source that…
World’s First Photonic Time Crystal Can Reshape Light in Trillionths of a Second
A THz electromagnetic wave induces strong, fast temporal modulations that realize a photonic time crystal: a crystal lattice…
James Webb Telescope Discovers Hidden Giant Planet in Famous Star System
This artist’s concept shows the Beta Pictoris system with the discovered giant exoplanet Beta Pictoris d at the…
Scientists Watch Chemistry Unfold Atom by Atom
A UV pulse (purple beam) excites 3-fluoropyridine, while a delayed X-ray pulse (white beam) probes the nitrogen atom…
Europe’s First TES Spectrometer Makes Previously Impossible X-Ray Experiments Possible
The superconducting sensors need a temperature below 25 milli Kelvin. This is achieved by using a He4-He3 dilution…