A study led by University of Oxford and Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers has uncovered how exposure to hydrogen ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant ...

Researchers have developed a blueprint for weaving hopfions—complex, knot-like light structures—into repeating spacetime ...

To analyze the produced diffraction patterns, incredibly complex mathematics are used. Two generated pattern is compared to a pattern which has been predicted mathematically.

Figure 1: a) Stationary diffraction pattern of cBN powder, integrated over the Debye-Scherrer rings, measured with femtosecond x-ray pulses as a function of the diffraction angle 2θ. b) Transient ...

The method of particle size analysis by X-ray diffraction using the Scherrer equation is fairly simple. To look at a graph plotting the X-ray diffraction pattern of a sample, it is likely to see a ...

From there, a special diffraction lens can be built. The diffraction lens can be shaped into any pattern with a small amount of computer code to compute the diffraction pattern for a given image.

Today, scientists can take an X-ray diffraction pattern, measure the angles of each scattered X-ray beam and use computer software to determine the atomic makeup of any crystal they come across.

A theoretical astrophysicist may have solved a nearly two-decade-old mystery over the origins of an unusual 'zebra' pattern seen in high-frequency radio pulses from the Crab Nebula.

A new version of the famous double-slit experiment showed that it's impossible to measure light as both a wave and a particle at the same time, thanks to quantum physics' uncertainty principle.