EditorialLaser spectroscopy is used to trigger chemical reactions in experiments with room-temperature superconductivity in a University of Rochester lab led by Ranga Dias in Rochester, N.Y., March 3, 2022. (Lauren Petracca/The New York Times)
EditorialLaser spectroscopy is used to trigger chemical reactions in experiments with room-temperature superconductivity in a University of Rochester lab led by Ranga Dias in Rochester, N.Y., March 3, 2022. (Lauren Petracca/The New York Times)
EditorialThe SuperCam instrument on NASA’s Perseverance rover, the box with the round lens on the top of the mast, uses reflectance spectroscopy to identify minerals like carbonates that might point to once habitable environments on Mars. (NASA via The New York Times)
EditorialThin windows for constructing experimental reaction cells, which allow soft X-ray spectroscopy to measure super-thin materials in various environments, are prepared at Advanced Light Source, in Berkeley, Calif., Nov. 26, 2019. (Anastasiia Sapon/The New York Times)