Redefining the second: Optical atomic clock achieves record accuracy in comparison measurement
The next generation of atomic clocks "ticks" with the frequency of a laser. This is about 100,000 times faster than the ...
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Accelerator Report: Another Exciting Year Ahead
Just as the end of a run gives us the chance to look back and reflect on our achievements, the start of a new year is the ...
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Fresh, direct evidence for tiny drops of quark-gluon plasma
A new analysis of data from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals fresh evidence that collisions of even very small nuclei with large ones might create tiny ...
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Multi-Ion Optical Atomic Clock Takes A Step Towards Changing The Definition Of A Second
Over the last several years, researchers have shown that it is possible to design clocks 1,000 times more precise than the ...
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4 foundational elements of laser cutting quality
High-powered fiber lasers are making endothermic cutting—using nitrogen, air, and gas mixing—a dominant method, but as Andujo ...
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Graphene-Based Model System for Selective Ion Transport
Chemists from Würzburg have developed a novel model system for selective ion transport. The system, composed of a stable ...