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Technology

Data centres could store information in glass for thousands of years

Microsoft researchers have developed a technology that writes data into glass with lasers, raising the prospect of robotic libraries full of glass tablets packed with data

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New Scientists inside a science base in the Moon conduct a variety of humorous experiments. We see a cat chasing after a giant laser beam; a scientist being eaten by a venus fly trap, a star falling through a Christmas tree as a scientist tries and fails to put it on top, a scientist going to a 'moonshine' bar, robots attending a seminar, a scientist trapping a human brain in a forcefield, and scientists stepping through portals. In the sky above the spaceship, Santa is being abducted by aliens.

Physics

Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

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Physics

Molecule's tiny quantum jiggle imaged in unprecedented detail

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Technology

Lasers can help detect radioactive materials from afar

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Physics

Light has been transformed into a 'supersolid' for the first time

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Record-breaking diamond storage can save data for millions of years

Technology

Record-breaking diamond storage can save data for millions of years

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Physics

Light has been seen leaving an atom cloud before it entered

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Physics

Laser helps turn an electron into a coil of mass and charge

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Physics

‘Sound laser’ is the most powerful ever made

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Schematic image of GaN hollow nanowires on a sapphire substrate.

Technology

Lasers smaller than a human hair emit doughnut-shaped light

Incredibly thin, hollow wires made from gallium and nitrogen can produce laser beams that are hollow with a ring-shaped cross-section, and that could be used to create optical fibres out of thin air

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Physics

Tiny lasers can be made from soap bubbles

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Chemistry

Atom-by-atom recordings track what happens after substances dissolve

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Technology

Tiniest particle accelerator is so small it could fit into a pen tip

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Physics

Quantum randomness of empty space can be controlled with a laser

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