Laser-cooling enables new measurements that could explain why antimatter is so scarce in our universe.
Physics laureate Donna Strickland receives the prize from King Carl Gustaf of Sweden during the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10, 2018.
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The winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics says scientists shouldn’t feel pressured to do research that has economic or commercial ramifications. Science for the sake of science is more important.
What could a ‘relativistic camera’ capture on the way to Alpha Centauri?
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An astronomer suggests an idea to piggyback on the ambitious Breakthrough Starshot project that aims to send nano spacecraft to Alpha Centauri at a major fraction of the speed of light.
Laser illumination in a light-sheet fluorescence microscope.
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