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• Light bursts out of a flying mirror
  

  A dense sheet of electrons accelerated to close to the speed of light can act as a tuneable mirror that can generate bursts of laser-like radiation in the short wavelength range via reflection. A team of physicists from the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, the Ludwig-Maximil more

• In search of the Island of Stability

  An international team has now measured the nuclear masses of two unstable superheavy elements for the first time. The results will help to predict the stability of even heavier elements. Researchers from eleven institutions have made the first precise measurements of nuclear shell effects in artific more

• Higgs excitations near absolute zero
  

  A collaboration of physicists from MPQ, LMU, Harvard and Caltech detect Higgs-type excitations in a low-dimensional system of ultracold atoms at the transition between different phases of matter. The sudden breaking of symmetry plays a fundamental role in physics, in particular for the description o more

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• Electrophilicities of trans-β-Nitrostyrenes

  The kinetics of the reactions of the trans-β-nitrostyrenes 1a–f with the acceptor-substituted carbanions 2a–h have been determined in dimethyl sulfoxide solution at 20 °C. The resulting second-order rate constants were employed to determine the electrophile-specific reactivity parameters E of the tr more

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