In places across the U.S., tree cover is shrinking—forests are burned by wildfires on the West Coast and drowned by rising sea levels along the East. From the ground, it's hard to assess the scale of the losses and the ...
Planetary Sciences
Mar 8, 2023
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For the first time, an international team of researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo's Institute for Solid State Physics, has demonstrated a switch, analogous to a transistor, made from a single molecule ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 21, 2023
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With a trio of smaller satellites that can each detect 26 wavelengths of light and thermal energy, the Landsat Next mission is expected to look very different from its predecessors that have been observing Earth for 50 years. ...
Planetary Sciences
Dec 21, 2022
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In the information era, photons and electrons are the main carriers of information transmission. Different from Moore's law in microelectronics, the density of integrated photonic devices is mainly limited by the wavelength ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 28, 2022
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Scientists are discovering increasing numbers of planets in other galaxies that resemble our own. What gives them away? Expert Jérémy Leconte takes a look.
Astronomy
Oct 24, 2022
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You may have heard that exposure to blue light can disrupt your sleep. As it turns, out it's also harmful to wildlife.
Plants & Animals
Sep 9, 2022
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In a recent publication in the journal Advanced Materials, a team of physicists and chemists from TU Dresden presents an organic thin-film sensor that describes a completely new way of identifying the wavelength of light ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 5, 2022
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Imagine walking into an airport or grocery store and your smartphone automatically starts charging. This could be a reality one day, thanks to a new wireless laser charging system that overcomes some of the challenges that ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 30, 2022
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Finding water on the moon could be easier with a Goddard technology that uses an effect called quantum tunneling to generate a high-powered terahertz laser, filling a gap in existing laser technology.
Space Exploration
Aug 25, 2022
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Researchers from Skoltech, the University of Iceland, and the University of Southampton have demonstrated the formation of an odd never-before-seen entity from the realm of quantum physics: a cluster of optical vortices with ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 10, 2022
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