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The ultra smooth mirror was required to enable the researchers to perform experiments on electron acceleration in medium density gas jets, with the subsequent goal to ...

Laser plasma acceleration exploits the extreme electric fields generated in plasmas to produce high-energy electron beams over centimetre‐scale distances, in stark contrast to the kilometre‐scale ...

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) achieved the first direct laboratory observation of ion acceleration through reflection off laser-generated magnetized ...

An international group of researchers from the Acceleration Consortium at the University of Toronto conducted experiments on organic solid-state lasers, which are economical and efficient. Cloud-based ...

Tau Systems, a producer of ultrafast, compact laser-plasma accelerators and secondary radiation sources, has announced a research collaboration with ELI ERIC and the University of Texas (UT) at Austin ...

Science shapes the medicines that keep us healthy, the energy that powers our cities, the technologies that drive our economies, and our understanding of the universe. It’s the foundation of human ...

A new look at da Vinci's papers reveals his insightful attempts to probe the nature of gravity 500 years ago. Engineers from Caltech have discovered that Leonardo da Vinci's understanding of gravity - ...

Engineers from Caltech have discovered that Leonardo da Vinci’s understanding of gravity—though not wholly accurate—was centuries ahead of his time. In an article published in the journal Leonardo, ...