The sun's corona—the outermost layer of its atmosphere, visible only during a total solar eclipse—has long intrigued ...

The ZEUS laser facility at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor has roughly doubled the peak power of any other laser in ...

In 1954, Washington State University professor William Band bumped into George Duvall, considered the father of American ...

Negative thermal expansion (NTE) is fascinating as it involves a material's volume contraction rather than expansion upon heating. Although NTE ...

Your eyesight might be good enough to confidently read the tiny text at the optometrist from a few meters away.

A new study by Professor Tao Sun tracks the evolution of crystallographic defects in real time during metal additive manufacturing.

The clean energy transition requires new means to transport energy that are less reliant on burning fossil fuels. This ...

Jensen said shock physics studies are behind advancements ... condition modeling with leading edge diagnostics like X-ray diffraction to provide data of how materials behave at the micro scale ...

The University of Michigan’s ZEUS is now the country’s most powerful with pulses lasting just 25 quintillionths of a second.

Scientists develop new optical system that removes blur over fine-structure in the Sun's corona, revealing clearest images to ...

How it works Diagram showing simulated light from an exoplanet and its companion star (far left) moving through the new ...

"The new coronal adaptive optics system closes this decades-old gap and delivers images of coronal features at 63 kilometers resolution—the theoretical limit of the 1.6-meter Goode Solar Telescope," ...