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MIT physicists have built a powerful new microscope that uses terahertz light to uncover hidden quantum motions inside ...

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Astronomers using MeerKAT have detected the most distant and powerful "cosmic laser" ever observed, offering new insights ...

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A thin, stubbornly bright line showed up in data from the MeerKAT radio telescope that did not fit the usual rules of ...

A razor-thin spike of radio light, tuned to a wavelength of about 18 centimeters, just traveled more than 8 billion light-years and still arrived loud enough to stand out in MeerKAT’s data. That ...

When the Trump administration last year sought to freeze construction of offshore wind farms by citing concerns about ...

Associate Professor Hanae Inami at the Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center specializes in astronomy, with a particular ...

Astrolight CEO Laurynas Mačiulis explains how laser satellite communication could ease spectrum congestion, increase data capacity, and raise new engineering and policy questions for space ...

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