Gwyn Williams holding an accelerator component inside JLab's FEL

The Promise of Terahertz

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created Jan 16, 2005 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Terahertz (THz) light may provide stunning breakthroughs in areas as diverse as national security, medical imaging and communications technology. But it's largely been ignored until recently, because there ...


Near-infrared surface image of Titan

Keck telescope captures Titan but misses Huygens

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created Jan 16, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Despite real though faint hopes, ground-based astronomers failed to see any sign of the Huygens probe's plunge into Titan's atmosphere on Friday, Jan. 14, but they did obtain some near-infrared images of Saturn's ...


Artist's concept of the LISA mission

Scientists spy on black-hole eating habits with 'LISA'

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created Jan 16, 2005 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

As big fish eat little fish in the Earth's vast oceans, so too do supermassive black holes gorge on smaller black holes and neutron stars, making themselves more massive in the process. Using sophisticated ...


Sounds From Titan And New Images

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ESA presents audio data collected by the Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument (HASI), which includes an acoustic sensor, during Huygens' descent, 14 January 2005. A couple of more pictures have been revealed. On 14 Jan ...


Astrobiologist helps IMAX director film

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Graduate student Kevin Hand explores the potential for life on Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter, for his doctoral work in geological and environmental sciences. Like most astrobiologists and planetary scientists, Hand must ...


Probe opens a new window to interstellar space

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Taking stock of the stuff between the stars - the all-important dust and gases that are the building blocks of new stars - has never been easy. The interstellar medium, as scientists know it, is a murky, nebulous place tha ...



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