Newswise — WASHINGTON, D.C., May 2, 2019 -- If you’re not a plasma physicist, exploding electrical wires underwater may sound like a bad idea. But it’s actually a way to study shock waves, the ...
A copper wire thinner than a human hair sat inside one of the most powerful X-ray facilities on Earth. Then a laser hit it, and for roughly 2.5 trillionths of a second, each copper atom lost 22 of its ...