DIY Michelson-Morley interferometer proves precision with Raspberry Pi and Lego. Affordable setup by Kyra Cole highlights ...

In February 2016 scientists at the two Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) sites in the US first detected the phenomenon predicted by Einstein, with the signals corresponding to ...

The company’s global success was recognised in April 2023, when it received the King’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category – the first award of this type since King Charles took ...

Chinese spaceflight activities have been on pause in recent weeks due to the annual Spring Festival and New Lunar Year ...

A new adaptive optics technology is set to transform gravitational-wave detection, allowing LIGO and future observatories like Cosmic Explorer to reach new heights. By correcting mirror distortions, ...

A collision with space junk could disable a satellite or telescope, causing mission delays or rendering the equipment unusable ... such as LIGO (Laser Interferometer GravitationalWave Observatory ...

LIGO is one of the largest pieces of scientific equipment in the world ... by the quantum properties of the laser light itself that we use in the interferometer to bounce off mirrors. The instrument ...

In communities living next to factory farms, residents have long voiced their concerns about environmental pollution. Now, research shows that not only can we see the air pollution generated by ...

However, in a common-path interferometer, because the two beams have traveled nearly the same path, they have encountered the same sources of environmental noise, such as equipment operating nearby or ...

Carl Barus, -of Brown University, recently published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a number of interesting applications of achromatic interferometry are described. In the first ...