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Vibrations key to efficiency of green fluorescent protein

Vibrations key to efficiency of green fluorescent protein

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered the secret to the success of a jellyfish protein whose green glow has made it the darling of biologists and the subject of the 2008 Nobel Prize ...


Science begins at the world's most powerful X-ray laser

Science Begins at the World's Most Powerful X-ray Laser (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first experiments are now underway using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source, located at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. ...


Laser accelerated protons to the highest energies so far

Researchers use trident laser to accelerate protons to record energies

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 10

An international team of physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory has succeeded in using intense laser light to accelerate protons to energies never before achieved. Using this technique, scientists can ...


Femtoseconds lasers help formation flying in space

Femtoseconds lasers help formation flying in space

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has helped to establish that femtosecond comb lasers can provide accurate measurement of absolute distance in formation flying space missions.


Laser Fusion and Exawatt Lasers

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (17) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the recent past, producing lasers with terawatt (a trillion watts) beams was impressive. Now petawatt (a thousand trillion watts, or 10^15 watts) lasers are the forefront of laser research. Some labs are ...


Laser technology creates new forms of metal and enhances aircraft performance

Laser technology creates new forms of metal and enhances aircraft performance

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 6

AFOSR-funded researchers at the University of Rochester are using laser light technology that will help the military create new forms of metal that may guide, attract and repel liquids and cool small electronic ...


Scientists create metal that pumps liquid uphill

Scientists create metal that pumps liquid uphill

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (26) | comments 22

(PhysOrg.com) -- In nature, trees pull vast amounts of water from their roots up to their leaves hundreds of feet above the ground through capillary action, but now scientists at the University of Rochester ...


French physicists claim breakthrough in ultra-fast data access

Physics / General Physics

created May 31, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (32) | comments 16

French physicists said on Sunday they had used ultra-fast lasers that could accelerate storage and retrieval of data on hard discs by up to 100,000 times, pointing the way to a new generation of IT wizardry.


Regular light bulbs made super-efficient with ultra-fast laser

Regular Light Bulbs Made Super-Efficient with Ultra-Fast Laser

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (40) | comments 23

(PhysOrg.com) -- An ultra-powerful laser can turn regular incandescent light bulbs into power-sippers, say optics researchers at the University of Rochester. The process could make a light as bright as a 100-watt ...


Polarizers may enhance remote chemical detection

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chemists can analyze the composition of a suspected bomb -- without actually touching and possibly detonating it -- using a technique called laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, or LIBS. The tool is also commonly used for ...