Fundamental questions that particle physicists have pondered for decades might be answered when a $9.2 million neutron physics beam line is built at the Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron ...

Shini talks to us about optical instruments and how they make magnification possible. How do lenses work? How do they form images? Well, in order to understand how optics work, we have to understand ...

This Physics World Focus looks at technologies that make physics research and advanced manufacturing possible. Alongside a report on futuristic vacuum-based transport systems, there are articles about ...

The cloistered world of Big Physics will be happy to learn that test, control, and design system specialists National Instruments (NI) has joined forces with Vitrociset, which designs, develops, and ...

AN interesting account of the debt of modern physics to recent instruments comes from the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York and is given by Karl K. Darrow (Review of Scientific Instruments, 12, ...

Diode laser spectroscopy, torsional oscillators, piezoelectric deformation and magnetostriction — all in a 44-foot trailer traveling to universities and conferences across the country. Welcome to the ...

Todd Bain doesn’t play guitar, but he cradles the strumbly like it’s an old friend he’s been strumming on for years. Maybe that’s because he helped create it. From the wood frame to the strings, Bain ...

Fundamental questions that particle physicists have pondered for decades might be answered when a $9.2 million neutron physics beam line is built at the Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron ...