http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A team of German researchers at KIT directed by Professor Christian Koos has succeeded in developing a novel optical connection between semiconductor chips. "Photonic wire bonding" reaches data transmission rates in the range of several terabits per second and is suited perfectly for production on the industrial scale. In the future, this technology may be used in high-performance emitter-receiver systems for optical data transmission and, thus, contribute to reducing energy consumption of the internet. The scientists published their results in the journal Optics Express. http://phys.org/news267355849.html Physics Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:31:00 EST news267355849 The mitotic spindle, an apparatus that segregates chromosomes during cell division, may be more complex than the standard textbook picture suggests, according to researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). http://phys.org/news254660492.html Biology Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:01:52 EST news254660492 Whether surgeons slice with a traditional scalpel or cut away with a surgical laser, most medical operations end up removing some healthy tissue, along with the bad. This means that for delicate areas like the brain, throat, and digestive tract, physicians and patients have to balance the benefits of treatment against possible collateral damage. http://phys.org/news254404540.html Physics Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:55:47 EST news254404540 It's official: The world's fastest movie was shot by DESY's X-ray laser FLASH in Hamburg, Germany. http://phys.org/news246730115.html Physics Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:08:51 EST news246730115 (PhysOrg.com) -- Whether it's right under our nose or far away, when we observe an object we see it—provided we have healthy eyes and normal vision or suitable glasses—in focus. For this to work, muscles deform the lenses of our eyes and adjust them to a suitable focal distance. For miniaturized technical devices, microscale lenses with a similar adaptable focus could be an advantage. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Hong-Bo Sun and a team from Jilin University (China) have described a new approach to the production of adjustable microlenses made from protein gels. http://phys.org/news243241104.html Chemistry Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:00:01 EST news243241104 (PhysOrg.com) -- Research conducted at the University of Michigan College of Engineering may lead to the use of insects to monitor hazardous situations before sending in humans. http://phys.org/news241262083.html Technology Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:15:00 EST news241262083 A newly discovered magnetic phenomenon could accelerate data storage by several orders of magnitude. http://phys.org/news221910203.html Physics Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:20:04 EST news221910203 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from MIT have developed a camera that can capture images of a scene that is not in its direct line of sight. The camera is equipped with a femtosecond laser, which fires extremely short bursts of light that can reflect off one object (such as a door or mirror) and then a second object before reflecting back to the first object and being captured by the camera. Algorithms can then use this information to reconstruct the hidden scene. http://phys.org/news209234206.html Technology Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:37:06 EST news209234206 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long sought the ability to regenerate nerve cells, or neurons, which could offer a new way to treat spinal-cord damage as well as neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. Many chemicals can regenerate neurons grown in Petri dishes in the lab, but it's difficult and time-consuming to identify those chemicals that work in live animals, which is critical for developing drugs for humans. http://phys.org/news206034822.html Chemistry Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:30:01 EST news206034822 At the scale of the very small, physics can get peculiar. A University of Michigan biomedical engineering professor has discovered a new instance of such a nanoscale phenomenon -- one that could lead to faster, less expensive portable diagnostic devices and push back frontiers in building micro-mechanical and "lab on a chip" devices. http://phys.org/news193410942.html Nanotechnology Tue, 18 May 2010 14:31:22 EST news193410942 Dr. Yves Bellouard of the Department of Mechanical Engineering is coordinator of a new European project, Femtoprint, to be started this month. The goal is to design a convenient 3D laser printer that will print microstructures in glass. With this ‘femtoprinter’ the manufacture of microstructures would no longer be the exclusive realm of big enterprises. http://phys.org/news192964971.html Technology Thu, 13 May 2010 10:50:01 EST news192964971 (PhysOrg.com) -- For nearly half a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how to build a cost-effective and reasonably sized X-ray laser that could, among other things, provide super high-resolution imaging. And for the past two decades, University of Colorado at Boulder physics professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn have been inching closer to that goal. http://phys.org/news186043518.html Physics Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:32:48 EST news186043518 AFOSR-funded researchers at the University of Rochester are using laser light technology that will help the military create new forms of metal that may guide, attract and repel liquids and cool small electronic devices. http://phys.org/news166903453.html Nanotechnology Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:40:01 EST news166903453 (PhysOrg.com) -- In nature, trees pull vast amounts of water from their roots up to their leaves hundreds of feet above the ground through capillary action, but now scientists at the University of Rochester have created a simple slab of metal that lifts liquid using the same principle—but does so at a speed that would make nature envious. http://phys.org/news163160428.html Physics Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:20:53 EST news163160428 French physicists said on Sunday they had used ultra-fast lasers that could accelerate storage and retrieval of data on hard discs by up to 100,000 times, pointing the way to a new generation of IT wizardry. http://phys.org/news162995052.html Physics Sun, 31 May 2009 13:24:50 EST news162995052 (PhysOrg.com) -- An ultra-powerful laser can turn regular incandescent light bulbs into power-sippers, say optics researchers at the University of Rochester. The process could make a light as bright as a 100-watt bulb consume less electricity than a 60-watt bulb while remaining far cheaper and radiating a more pleasant light than a fluorescent bulb can. http://phys.org/news162821951.html Physics Fri, 29 May 2009 13:20:03 EST news162821951