A new study assesses the risk of space-based solar power satellites damaging nearby orbital space infrastructure with ...
Beijing team finds that potential electrical discharges, though brief, could induce abnormal currents in spacecraft systems.
Physicists are learning to carve laser beams into intricate shapes that can grab hold of electrons and push them with a ...
Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...
Quantum computers could rapidly solve complex problems that would take the most powerful classical supercomputers decades to ...
Startup Substrate is building next-generation semiconductor fabs using advanced X-ray lithography. This goes beyond extreme ...
Plasma Wakefield Accelerators (PWFA) represent a disruptive candidate for next-generation high-energy accelerators. By ...
Quantum computers could rapidly solve complex problems that would take the most powerful classical supercomputers decades to ...
Quantum entanglement happens when two particles become interconnected and share a single state. Scientists have measured how ...
A starship driven by a captive black hole sounds like pure science fiction, yet the underlying physics is brutally literal. A ...
In high-intensity laser–matter interactions, including laser-induced particle acceleration, physicists generally want to work ...
In 1929, Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented the cyclotron: a compact, efficient particle accelerator that used magnets. Two ...