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Astronomy Sep 22, 2020

Can ripples on the sun help predict solar flares?

Solar flares are violent explosions on the sun that fling out high-energy charged particles, sometimes toward Earth, where they disrupt communications and endanger satellites and astronauts.

Materials Science Jul 1, 2020

Holographic beam shaping to deliver a boost to metallic 3-D printing

Cambridge engineers have begun a three-year research program to help speed up the manufacture of metallic 3-D printed parts and products, by using computer-generated holography.

General Physics Mar 17, 2020

Seeing with electrons: scientists pave the way to more affordable and accessible cryo-EM

Visualizing the structure of viruses, proteins and other small biomolecules can help scientists gain deeper insights into how these molecules function, potentially leading to new treatments for disease. In recent years, a ...

Nanophysics Feb 20, 2020

New graphene-based metasurface capable of independent amplitude and phase control of light

Researchers described a new strategy of designing metamolecules that incorporates two independently controllable subwavelength meta-atoms. This two-parametric control of the metamolecule secures the complete control of both ...

Optics & Photonics Feb 6, 2020

Researchers demonstrate optical backflow of light

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have for the first time demonstrated the backflow of optical light propagating forward. The phenomenon, theorized more than 50 years ago by quantum physicists, has never before been demonstrated ...

Astronomy Sep 11, 2019

Black hole at the center of our galaxy appears to be getting hungrier

The enormous black hole at the center of our galaxy is having an unusually large meal of interstellar gas and dust, and researchers don't yet understand why.

Optics & Photonics Aug 27, 2019

Machine learning increases resolution of eye imaging technology

Biomedical engineers at Duke University have devised a method for increasing the resolution of optical coherence tomography (OCT) down to a single micrometer in all directions, even in a living patient. The new technique, ...

Optics & Photonics May 6, 2019

New holographic technique opens the way for quantum computation

Photography measures how much light of different color hits the photographic film. However, light is also a wave, and is therefore characterized by the phase. Phase specifies the position of a point within the wave cycle ...

Optics & Photonics Jan 28, 2019

Manipulating cell networks with light – new frontiers in optical microscopy

A new optical microscope system called stimulation and imaging-based functional optical microscopy (SIFOM) can stimulate multiple cells simultaneously via a holographic method and monitor cell activity after the stimulation ...

General Physics Jan 4, 2019

Controllable fast, tiny magnetic bits

For many modern technical applications, such as superconducting wires for magnetic resonance imaging, engineers want as much as possible to get rid of electrical resistance and its accompanying production of heat.

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