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Self-assembling materials called block copolymers, which are known to form a variety of predictable, regular patterns, can now be made into much more complex patterns that may open up new areas of materials design, a team of MIT researchers say....

Researchers at the University of Michigan have detected microscopic twists in the internal structure of plant and animal tissue without using potentially harmful X-rays. The approach involves rotating terahertz radiation in real time, and is said to be the first...

In a June 24, 2019 article from Sally Ward-Foxton, EET Asia reports “The Current Reality of Facial Recognition,” emphasizing that while technology has advanced, it still has a long way to go. The article begins by stating that “The UK...

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and physicians from the Rochester Regional Health System (RRHS) have developed a noninvasive, cost-effective method using infrared (IR) technology to locate hard-to-find breast cancer tumors. The system consists of an IR camera on...

A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) and the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI; Seattle, WA) has combined a nanoscale microscopy method called expansion microscopy with virtual reality (VR) to enable enlarging, exploring, and analyzing...

A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) and the Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI; Seattle, WA) has combined a nanoscale microscopy method called expansion microscopy with virtual reality (VR) to enable enlarging, exploring, and analyzing...

The emerging field of photopharmacology aims to use light as an external stimulus to activate drug molecules, and do so with a high degree of control over the time and place where this happens – a conceptually straightforward task, which...

Researchers have developed a new laser-based method that can detect electric charges and chemicals of interest with unprecedented sensitivity. The new approach could one day offer a way to scan large areas for radioactive material or hazardous chemicals for safety...

The past decade has seen significant progress in the development of novel mid-infrared (mid-IR) coherent light sources spanning a broad spectral bandwidth, and of new spectrometric techniques to make the most of them. Researchers now harness such light sources—based on...

A growing number of applications, including smartphone cameras, depend on microlens arrays to boost performance, for example by compensating for the “dead space” around detector pixels. However, although micro-optics are commercially available, they can be prohibitively expensive to fabricate and...