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Scientists at the University of Oxford have unveiled a pioneering method for capturing the full structure of ultra-intense laser pulses in a single measurement. The breakthrough, published in close ...

Experiences dealing with previous outbreaks of infectious disease can help countries with weak health systems prepare for new health emergencies.

Physicists have used ultrashort laser pulses to probe the dynamics of photoelectron emission in tungsten crystals. Physicists at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich (LMU) and the Max Planck ...

Chair of Ancient Near Eastern Literatures, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Throughout the twentieth century, only the fragmentary version of the prologue of the epic was known. Generations of ...

Worrying about jet lag could actually make it worse, so try to relax on your next long-haul flight. Eva Winnebeck at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, and her colleagues have looked at ...

Numerical information only (in the tables above) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Universities are under pressure, from declines in student ...

A team of chemists at LMU has successfully coupled the directed motion of a light-activated molecular motor to a different chemical unit—thus taking an important step toward the realization of ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Qube, a German cubesat, is preparing to test quantum key generation and distribution via optical link. Mission operators in Germany made contact with the 3.53-kilogram Qube ...