{"id":245847,"date":"2026-10-23T01:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/ultrafast-light-pulses-track-molecular-motion-with-three-femtosecond-resolution"},"modified":"2026-10-23T01:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:53:16","slug":"ultrafast-light-pulses-track-molecular-motion-with-three-femtosecond-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/ultrafast-light-pulses-track-molecular-motion-with-three-femtosecond-resolution","title":{"rendered":"Ultrafast light pulses track molecular motion with three-femtosecond resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Researchers have observed a molecule in the first instants after it has absorbed light and tracked the coordinated motion of electrons and nuclei with a temporal resolution of three femtoseconds. This is the result achieved by an international research group led by the Politecnico di Milano, which has developed a new apparatus for studying ultrafast photochemical processes.<\/p>\n<p>The experimental platform achieves a temporal resolution of approximately 3 femtoseconds\u2014one femtosecond is one millionth of one billionth of a second.<\/p>\n<p>The result, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-76602-4\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, was obtained as part of the European ERC Synergy TOMATTO project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have observed a molecule in the first instants after it has absorbed light and tracked the coordinated motion of electrons and nuclei with a temporal resolution of three femtoseconds. This is the result achieved by an international research group led by the Politecnico di Milano, which has developed a new apparatus for studying ultrafast [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}