How do researchers explore nature on its most fundamental level? They build "supermicroscopes" that can resolve atomic and subatomic details. This won't work with visible light, but they can probe the tiniest dimensions of ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 13, 2019
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Imagine printing electronic devices using a simple inkjet printer—or even painting a solar panel onto the wall of a building.
Materials Science
Jul 16, 2019
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On bright summer days, the sunlight all around us is breaking bad by breaking bonds. Chemical bonds.
Materials Science
Jul 11, 2019
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Researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have created the first silicon chip that can reliably constrain light to its four corners. The effect, which arises from interfering optical pathways, isn't altered by small ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 18, 2019
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Tissue engineering could transform medicine. Instead of waiting for our bodies to regrow or repair damage after an injury or disease, scientists could grow complex, fully functional tissues in a laboratory for transplantation ...
Materials Science
May 21, 2019
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To a patient, the analysis of a tissue biopsy sample to check for something like cancer may seem like a relatively simple process, even if it does mean giving up a small piece of flesh to be tested. The sample heads off to ...
Optics & Photonics
May 16, 2019
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An international team of researchers used an X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to create the first detailed maps of two melatonin receptors that tell our bodies when to go to sleep ...
Biochemistry
Apr 24, 2019
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Since the historic finding of gravitational waves from two black holes colliding over a billion light years away was made in 2015, physicists are advancing knowledge about the limits on the precision of the measurements that ...
General Physics
Mar 25, 2019
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Researchers at Caltech have designed a way to levitate and propel objects using only light, by creating specific nanoscale patterning on the objects' surfaces.
Optics & Photonics
Mar 19, 2019
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Researchers have found a way to pre-treat a laser beam so that it enters opaque surfaces without dispersing—like a headlight that's able to cut through heavy fog at full strength.
Optics & Photonics
Mar 4, 2019
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