Record-breaking laser link could help us test whether Einstein was right
IMAGE: UWA's rooftop observatory. view more Credit: ICRAR Scientists from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research...
Controlling chemical catalysts with sculpted light
IMAGE: Depiction of the experimental setup where palladium nanorods lie atop gold nanobars. In this image,...
Researchers at Brazil’s space institute discover why lightning branches and flickers
IMAGE: Analysis of the first super slow motion recordings of upward flashes suggests a possible explanation...
Metastable metallic nanoparticles could find use in electronics, optics
Rice University scientists extended their technique to produce graphene in a flash to tailor the...
Comb of a lifetime: a new method for fluorescence microscopy
IMAGE: 2D arrangement of 44,400 light stopwatches enables scan-less fluorescence lifetime imaging view more Credit: Tokushima...
See live cells with 7 times greater sensitivity using new microscopy technique
IMAGE: Researchers at the University of Tokyo have found a way to enhance the sensitivity of...
Putting on the pressure improves glass for fiber optics
IMAGE: The voids (yellow) in silica glass become much smaller when the glass is quenched at...
Putting on the pressure improves glass for fiber optics — ScienceDaily
Rapid, accurate communication worldwide is possible via fiber optic cables, but as good as they...
Experiment takes ‘snapshots’ of light, stops light, uses light to change properties of matter
PITTSBURGH--Light travels at a speed of about 300,000,000 meters per second as light particles, photons,...
Perfect transmission through barrier using sound
The perfect transmission of sound through a barrier is difficult to achieve, if not impossible...