Try to fathom the power of 1 million nuclear power plants. Now, imagine there is a way to pack the equivalent of that into ...

Expert sommeliers can take a whiff of a glass of wine and tell you a lot about what's in your pinot noir or cabernet sauvignon. A team of physicists at CU Boulder and the National Institute of ...

All of the uranium in the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was enriched in Oak Ridge, including at the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant, ...

The group has developed a new laser-based device that can take any sample of gas and identify a huge variety of the molecules within it. It is sensitive enough to detect those molecules at minute ...

Helium-neon lasers may be little more than glorified neon signs, but there’s just something about that glowing glass tube that makes the whole process of stimulated emission easier to understand.

A third option is to frequency-double a gas laser to shift its output wavelength from around 10 μm to 5 μm. “Quantum cascade lasers can generate milliwatt continuous powers or multiwatt peak ...

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Rather, he built a very clever gas mixer for filling his homemade CO2 laser tubes, which only looks like a welding machine. (Video, embedded below.) We’ve been following [Lucas] on his journey ...

Tennessee-based Cupples’ J&J Co. has added a 50-kW Cutlite Penta with bevel laser cutting machine. It can oxygen-cut ...

The group has developed a new laser-based device that can take any sample of gas and identify a huge variety of the molecules within it. It is sensitive enough to detect those molecules at minute ...