SLAC: Petawatt Laser Facility Addition
In late 2021, a proposal for a 10Hz petawatt laser addition to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) was approved for construction by the Department of Energy…
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James Webb Telescope Reaches Final Destination, L2
The James Webb telescope is a 10 billion dollar observatory spacecraft used to examine other planets’ atmospheres to see if they are habitable, or possibly already inhabited. It reached its…
Measuring Resonances: JILA Optical Lattice Clock
Physicists from JILA, a research institute cofounded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder, have reported developments in the use of ultracold…
Promising Tests for the Use of CBD Against SARS-CoV-2 Virus
On January 20, 2022, Dr. Marsha Rosner, a cancer biologist from the University of Chicago, published a research paper in Science Advances with results that could possibly change the course…
Quantum Startup Launches 256-qubit Computer
With numerous competitors across the technology industry, massive corporations such as Google and IBM have been at the forefront of developing larger and more complex systems of entangled qubits for…
Fermilab MicroBoone: No Sign of Sterile Neutrinos
New results from the United States Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), or Fermilab for short, show no signs of a fourth flavor sterile neutrino. This hypothetical particle…