https://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. Every new generation of phone display, television screen and solar panel is the result of precision optics experiments, which use lasers and other light sources to measure the optical properties of candidate materials. These experiments can take months to run, requiring scientists to meticulously angle and adjust delicate light sources, mirrors, cameras and other components in a process of careful, constant tuning that can be physically tedious and time-consuming. https://phys.org/news/2026-09-robotic-lab-optics-demand.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:40:27 EDT news708854343 You can learn a lot from a little slime mold. For Nate Cira, assistant professor of biomedical engineering in Cornell Engineering, the tiny eukaryotic organism provided inspiration for modeling "traveling networks"—connected systems that move by rearranging their structure. https://phys.org/news/2025-02-slime-molds-corporations-networks-path.html Mathematics Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:50:59 EST news659796651 Optical waves propagating through air or multi-mode fiber can be patterned or decomposed using orthogonal spatial modes, with far-ranging applications in imaging, communication, and directed energy. Yet the systems that perform these wavefront manipulations are cumbersome and large, restricting their utilization to high-end applications. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-3d-microscale-photonic-lantern-opportunities.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 03 Jun 2024 23:00:02 EDT news636644102 Researchers have successfully used a coherent transceiver prototype to detect polarization changes that preceded a cable break in a live network. The work, which is one of the first demonstrations of field-based measurements for an active cable break, shows the potential of transceiver-based sensing for actively monitoring and improving the stability of fiber networks. https://phys.org/news/2024-02-transceiver-based-fiber-networks.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:55:16 EST news627238511 In a new field trial, researchers show that a real-time coherent transceiver prototype can be used for continuous sensing over a 524-km live network aerial fiber wound around high-voltage power cables suspended from outdoor poles. https://phys.org/news/2023-01-scientists-real-time-environmental-kilometers-aerial.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 20 Jan 2023 04:29:49 EST news593411385 Today's society generates ever more internet data traffic for applications such as ultra-high-definition video, cloud services and 5G mobile connections. This decades-long continual exponential growth of data traffic has been underpinned by optical fibers. Sjoerd van der Heide explored how the spatial dimension in optical and digital transmission techniques can be used in future ultra-high-capacity optical transmission links. https://phys.org/news/2022-04-advanced-digital-ultra-high-capacity-optical-transmission.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 22 Apr 2022 10:48:09 EDT news569843286 In late 2022, NASA will send an ice-mining experiment attached to a robotic lander to the lunar South Pole on a ridge not far from Shackleton crater—a location engineers and scientists have assessed for months. NASA and Intuitive Machines, an agency partner for commercial moon deliveries, announced the location selection Nov. 3. https://phys.org/news/2021-11-nasa-intuitive-machines-site-lunar.html Space Exploration Fri, 05 Nov 2021 08:43:08 EDT news555320584 As Russia and China sign a deal for a shared lunar space station, we look at the new race to the Moon with Nokia even working with NASA to give it a 4G network. https://phys.org/news/2021-03-giant-moon-hots.html Space Exploration Tue, 09 Mar 2021 15:50:21 EST news534527414 Optics researchers from The University of Queensland and Nokia Bell Labs in the US have developed a new technique to demonstrate the time reversal of optical waves, which could transform the fields of advanced biomedical imaging and telecommunications. https://phys.org/news/2020-12-physicists-time-reversed-optical.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 14 Dec 2020 09:05:25 EST news527159121 As you drive down the road leading to Jodrell Bank Observatory, a sign asks visitors to turn off their mobile phones, stating that the Lovell telescope is so powerful it could detect a phone signal on Mars. https://phys.org/news/2020-11-4g-network-moon-bad-news.html Astronomy Wed, 04 Nov 2020 10:00:27 EST news523706422 Nokia says it has been tapped by NASA to build the first cellular communications network on the moon. https://phys.org/news/2020-10-nokia-moon-4g-cell-network.html Space Exploration Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:37:34 EDT news522333452 In swaths of rural America, along roads where there are just a few farms or homes within a mile-long stretch, customers are so few that the likes of AT&T and T-Mobile don't bother to build cell towers for coverage. https://phys.org/news/2019-05-huawei-threat-rural-internet.html Business Thu, 23 May 2019 12:40:51 EDT news477834040 A research team has developed a light beam device that could lead to faster internet, clearer images of space and more detailed medical imaging. https://phys.org/news/2019-05-optical-device-decomposes-cartesian-grid.html General Physics Tue, 21 May 2019 07:20:39 EDT news477642000 Telecoms gear maker Nokia reported Thursday a surprise first-quarter loss amid tougher competition for the new, superfast wireless 5G networks that are expected to increase in business this year. https://phys.org/news/2019-04-nokia-loss-tough-competition-networks.html Business Thu, 25 Apr 2019 06:01:39 EDT news475390857 The Samsung Galaxy J phone won't win any critics awards. https://phys.org/news/2019-04-smartphone.html Consumer & Gadgets Fri, 12 Apr 2019 08:50:01 EDT news474276377 US officials are fanning out across Europe to warn about the security risks of allowing Chinese telecoms giant Huawei to help build 5G mobile networks, a US diplomat said Tuesday. https://phys.org/news/2019-02-dont-huawei-5g-eu-nations.html Business Tue, 05 Feb 2019 13:20:07 EST news468595198 It's a dilemma for European telecoms firms: Should they steal a march on competitors and rapidly roll out next-generation 5G mobile networks using equipment from top supplier Huawei? Or should they heed US-led warnings of security threats and sit tight, and possibly fall behind? https://phys.org/news/2019-02-european-telecoms-dilemma-huawei-highway.html Business Sun, 03 Feb 2019 08:18:41 EST news468404313 Nokia has reported increased fourth-quarter earnings on the back of grown orders from telecom operators of new-generation mobile networks that are expected to be rolled out commercially this year. https://phys.org/news/2019-01-nokia-q4-profit-5g-networks.html Telecom Thu, 31 Jan 2019 06:58:32 EST news468140306 Apple's bombshell news—a sharply weaker revenue outlook and lower iPhone sales—has raised questions over the future of the California giant, which until recently had been seen as the undisputed innovation leader in the tech sector. https://phys.org/news/2019-01-apple-bombshell-trillion-dollar_1.html Business Fri, 04 Jan 2019 02:05:36 EST news465789892 Apple's bombshell news—a sharply weaker revenue outlook and lower iPhone sales—has raised questions over the future of the California giant, which until recently had been seen as the undisputed innovation leader in the tech sector. https://phys.org/news/2019-01-apple-bombshell-trillion-dollar.html Consumer & Gadgets Thu, 03 Jan 2019 13:20:01 EST news465741905 The U.S. dispute with China over a ban on tech giant Huawei is spilling over to Europe, the company's biggest foreign market, where some countries are also starting to shun its network systems over data security concerns. https://phys.org/news/2018-12-china-huawei-setbacks-europe-telecom.html Business Sun, 23 Dec 2018 14:56:58 EST news464799405 VTT and LUT University alongside with Finnish companies have developed a method and guidelines for evaluating and communicating on the carbon handprint of products. The carbon handprint describes the positive climate impacts of a product. https://phys.org/news/2018-12-environmental-indicator-positive-climate-impacts.html Environment Tue, 18 Dec 2018 10:37:45 EST news464351859 While a Huawei executive faces possible U.S. charges over trade with Iran, the Chinese tech giant's ambition to be a leader in next-generation telecoms is colliding with security worries abroad. https://phys.org/news/2018-12-stymie-huawei.html Business Sun, 16 Dec 2018 03:40:45 EST news464153981 Telecom networks provider Nokia reported Thursday lower third-quarter earnings and said it would start a new cost-cutting program as it waits for demand for the new 5G systems to pick up. https://phys.org/news/2018-10-nokia-5g-network-demand.html Business Thu, 25 Oct 2018 05:36:12 EDT news459664565 Researchers within the Graphene Flagship project, one of the biggest research initiatives of the European Commission, showed that integrated graphene-based photonic devices offer a unique solution for the next generation of optical communications. Researchers in the initiative have demonstrated how properties of graphene enable ultra-wide bandwidth communications coupled with low power consumption to radically change the way data is transmitted across the optical communications systems. This could make graphene-integrated devices the key ingredient in the evolution of 5G, the Internet-of-Things (IoT), and Industry 4.0. The findings were published in Nature Reviews Materials and highlighted on the cover. https://phys.org/news/2018-10-graphene-unique-potential-bandwidth-demands.html Nanomaterials Fri, 12 Oct 2018 09:30:02 EDT news458554427 A research team comprising members from City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Harvard University and a renowned information technologies laboratory has successfully fabricated a tiny on-chip lithium niobate modulator, an essential component for the optoelectronic industry. The modulator is smaller, more efficient with faster data transmission, and costs less. The technology is set to revolutionise the industry. https://phys.org/news/2018-09-smaller-faster-efficient-modulator-revolutionize.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:00:04 EDT news456997822 Nokia will help T-Mobile deploy a superfast "5G" mobile internet network across the United States in a $3.5-billion deal, the companies announced Monday. https://phys.org/news/2018-07-nokia-t-mobile-superfast-telecom-network.html Telecom Mon, 30 Jul 2018 17:38:13 EDT news452191043 Nokia says its second-quarter earnings slumped as clients were not willing yet to increase spending on the faster but more expensive new generation of mobile networks and are seeking price cuts. https://phys.org/news/2018-07-nokia-profit-clients-wary-networks.html Business Thu, 26 Jul 2018 10:06:47 EDT news451818402 The rise and prosperity of a city neighborhood is not predicated on economic capital alone—the presence of a vibrant arts, music and science culture is equally important. So says a groundbreaking study published in Frontiers in Physics, in which researchers used social media images of cultural events in London and New York City to create a model that can predict neighborhoods where residents enjoy a high level of wellbeing—and even anticipate gentrification by 5 years. With more than half of the world's population living in cities, the model could help policymakers ensure human wellbeing in dense urban settings. https://phys.org/news/2018-06-social-media-images-culture-economic.html General Physics Wed, 06 Jun 2018 17:37:22 EDT news447525432 Scientists have shown how an optical chip can simulate the motion of atoms within molecules at the quantum level, which could lead to better ways of creating chemicals for use as pharmaceuticals. https://phys.org/news/2018-05-scientists-photonic-quantum-simulator-virtual.html Quantum Physics Wed, 30 May 2018 13:00:01 EDT news446902895