Semiconductors and electronics Research update Semiconductor lights up solar cells Physicists in the US and Japan have discovered gaps in what we know about indium nitride
Optical physics Research update Imaging an infant brain Scientists take the first 3-D images of a newborn baby’s brain using transmitted light measurements
Plasma physics Research update Plasma accelerators take shape Researchers use laser pulses in a jet of helium gas in a new approach to particle acceleration
Superconductivity Research update Plutonium is also a superconductor Physicists discover superconductivity in a plutonium-based compound
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Imaging Research update Power from terahertz beams Researchers create highest ever terahertz beam by magnetically manipulating electrons inside a particle accelerator
Telescopes and space missions Research update Magnetic meteorites Physicists find extraterrestrial magnetic carbon in a meteorite
Dark matter and energy Research update Evidence for dark energy gets stronger Astronomers produce new evidence using gravitational lenses
Structure and dynamics Research update Easy escape for Martian meteorites Smaller impacts than previously imagined can eject meteorites into interplanetary space
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