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Before germs like viruses can make you sick, they first have to make a landing on one of your cells—Mars Rover style—and then punch their way inside. A team of physical chemists at Duke is building a microscope so powerful...

You may not have heard of optical coherence tomography, or OCT. But if you’ve visited an ophthalmologist recently, chances are your eye came within an inch or two of a scanning device employing the technology. Tens of thousands of these...

A team of engineers from Rutgers University-New Brunswick have developed a lab-on-a-chip capable of identifying biomarkers in the body indicative of certain diseases. The technology can be used in wearables, as well as in other portable devices. Read more...

The number and structure of mitochondria present in skeletal muscle tissue is thought to be a factor in several aspects of muscle function and well-being, so accurate imaging of those mitochondria under various metabolic demands could provide useful information for...

Microresonator soliton frequency combs have been shown to considerably increase the performance of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) techniques in optical communications. The technology could be used to develop efficient, highly scalable communication systems. WDM enables transmission of ultrahigh data rates...

“Deep learning” computer systems, based on artificial neural networks that mimic the way the brain learns from an accumulation of examples, have become a hot topic in computer science. In addition to enabling technologies such as face- and voice-recognition software,...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and academic collaborators have demonstrated the synthesis of transparent glass through 3D printing, a development that could ultimately lead to altering the design and structure of lasers and other devices that incorporate optics. Read more...

A breakthrough innovation in the measurement of lasers can measure changes one millionth of the size of an atom and could revolutionize their use in quantum technologies and healthcare thanks to new, lower-cost technology. A team from the University of...

A flat lens for immersion microscopy has been developed. The lens, which can be designed for use with any form of liquid, could provide a cost-effective and easy-to-manufacture alternative to hand polishing lenses for immersion objectives. Because of their distinctive...

Researchers from Microsoft Corp. and HRL Laboratories, USA, have developed a method for deforming a standard commercial CMOS image sensor into a highly curved shape that’s more compatible with the image actually formed by a camera lens. The team reports...