25/02/2007

New technique opens door to tabletop X-ray laser

A team of researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder has developed a new technique to generate laser-like X-ray beams, removing a major obstacle in the decades-long quest to build a tabletop X-ray laser that could ...

Rosetta successfully swings-by Mars

There was considerable relief today at ESA's Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. In the early hours, spacecraft controllers, flight dynamics experts, engineers and scientists were able to see a spacecraft ...