{"id":94388,"date":"2019-08-02T19:22:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T02:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/physicists-just-captured-the-first-ever-footage-of-a-molecules-spectacular-rotation"},"modified":"2019-08-02T19:22:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T02:22:46","slug":"physicists-just-captured-the-first-ever-footage-of-a-molecules-spectacular-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/physicists-just-captured-the-first-ever-footage-of-a-molecules-spectacular-rotation","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Just Captured The First-Ever Footage of a Molecule\u2019s Spectacular Rotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-just-captured-the-first-ever-footage-of-a-molecules-spectacular-rotation.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine trying to film an event that was over and done within a mere 125 trillionths of a second. It\u2019s something that molecular physicists have long been dreaming of, and at last it seems they\u2019ve achieved their goal.<\/p>\n<p>Using precisely tuned pulses of laser light, an international team of scientists from four different institutions has managed to film the ultrafast rotation of a molecule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recorded a high-resolution molecular movie of the ultrafast rotation of carbonyl sulphide as a pilot project,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2019-07\/ded-sfm072619.php\">said molecular physicist Evangelos Karamatskos<\/a> from DESY, Germany\u2019s largest accelerator centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine trying to film an event that was over and done within a mere 125 trillionths of a second. It\u2019s something that molecular physicists have long been dreaming of, and at last it seems they\u2019ve achieved their goal. Using precisely tuned pulses of laser light, an international team of scientists from four different institutions has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94388","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\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}