Acoustics map out the brass section
Reflected pulses could help to tune the timbre of trumpets and cornets
Microscopes move to smaller scales
Optical microscopy achieves its highest-ever resolution
Read article: Small is beautiful for new neutron generator
Small is beautiful for new neutron generator
A compact source of neutrons could benefit fields from medicine to condensed matter physics
Read article: Lasers illuminate the flight of the bumblebee
Lasers illuminate the flight of the bumblebee
Precise optical tracking could improve models of the dynamics of flying insects
DIAMOND boss appointed
Director of the German synchrotron lab takes the helm at the new UK facility
Lively proteins move and shake
Biophysicists find that proteins are much more dynamic than previously thought
X marks the atom
X-ray 'camera' takes its first snapshot of a crystal lattice
Beating the femtosecond limit
Ultrashort laser pulses could probe processes that occur almost instantaneously
SOLEIL synchrotron for Saclay
The intense X-rays from SOLEIL will be used for a range of experiments in physics, chemistry and biology. The machine is expected to come on-line in 2005. According to Schwartzenberg, the French gover...
Laser control of X-ray output
In harmonic generation a short pulse of intense radiation is focussed into a gas of atoms. The laser-atom interactions are highly nonlinear, and a number of the input photons effectively combine to ge...
