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fromArs Technica
10 hours ago

I've fired one of America's most powerful lasers-here's what a shot day looks like

Charging the capacitor banks initiates a tense moment in the control room, where silence prevails as everyone focuses on the monitors. After confirming the charge, the shot is fired, releasing stored energy into the beam.
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fromArs Technica
5 days ago

Physicists think they've resolved the proton size puzzle

Recent measurements confirm a smaller proton radius, resolving the long-standing proton radius puzzle and suggesting no new physics is needed.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
3 months ago

The technology that reveals what happens in 0.00000000000000000000001 second

Attosecond-scale light pulses reveal ultrafast electron dynamics, enabling new studies of materials, quantum processes, and biological structures, and have earned major scientific awards.
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fromBig Think
8 months ago

The Universe is not the same forwards and backwards in time

Time is experienced only in one direction: forward, despite underlying laws of physics suggesting symmetry.
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