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Opportunities could soon be on the horizon for laser manufacturers thanks to a new type of cold storage technology under development by Microsoft Research and the University of Southampton, in which ultrafast lasers are being used to scribe digital information...

An international team of researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology has developed a method that involves a glowing paper strip, a drop of a patient’s blood, and a digital camera to test for infectious diseases in 20 minutes. The...

Light of different wavelengths travels at different speeds in different materials and structures. But an ordinary lens cannot focus light of different wavelengths to a single spot due to dispersion effects. This, say a team of researchers at the University...

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to two pioneers of cancer immunotherapy, James P. Allison of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA, and Tasuku Honjo, Kyoto University, Japan. The laureates received their award for their groundbreaking work...

Scientists at the Allen Institute have used machine learning to develop a label-free tool for predicting 3D fluorescence directly from transmitted-light images. Instead of fluorescence microscopy, the new method uses only black-and-white images generated by a bright-field microscope. To the...

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,...

The ability of metallic or semiconducting materials to absorb, reflect and act upon light is of primary importance to scientists developing optoelectronics – electronic devices that interact with light to perform tasks. Rice University scientists have now produced a method...

Physicists at The City College of New York (CCNY) have used atomically thin two-dimensional materials to realize an array of on-demand quantum emitters operating at room temperature that can be integrated into next-generation quantum-communication systems. CCNY professors Carlos Meriles and...

According to scientists at the University of Vienna (TU Wien), it is now possible to measure the photoelectric effect. The TU Wien team, together with research groups from Garching, Munich, and Berlin, determined the duration of the photoelectric effect using...

A team of researchers at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (U. of I.; Champaign, IL) has found through use of multiple types of microscopy that a kidney stone is built...