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For over two centuries, these devices have grown increasingly popular and proven to be so useful, they have become an indispensable part of modern life. /news/2025-09-ultra-flat-optic-previously-thought.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:16:25 EDT news676887380 A record-breaking development in laser technology could help support the development of smaller, cheaper, more easily-fabricated optical and quantum technologies, its inventors say. /news/2025-09-narrow-linewidth-laser-chip-standard.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:13:04 EDT news676811581 Researchers at Penn State demonstrate the first steps in the design of tiny particles that can perform specialized tasks, such as targeted delivery of drugs or other cargo. /news/2025-09-nanobots-play-leader-chemical-trails.html Bio & Medicine Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:29:04 EDT news676715341 A new approach to manufacturing multicolor lenses could inspire a new generation of tiny, cheap, and powerful optics for portable devices such as phones and drones. /news/2025-09-tiny-metamaterial-lenses-imaging-smartphones.html Optics & Photonics Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:20:07 EDT news676635601 Researchers have demonstrated a new fabrication approach that enables the exploration of a broader range of superconducting materials for quantum hardware. /news/2025-09-fabrication-technique-door-materials-quantum.html Superconductivity Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 03 Sep 2025 08:59:03 EDT news676108741 In a major leap for artificial intelligence (AI) and photonics, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have created optical generative models capable of producing novel images using the physics of light instead of conventional electronic computation. /news/2025-08-optical-generative-ushering-era-sustainable.html Optics & Photonics Sun, 31 Aug 2025 09:20:01 EDT news675602124 Imagine a whirlpool spinning in a river, or a tornado swirling through the sky. They don't just spin on the spot: they travel forward while maintaining that spiraling motion inside them. These twisting motions, called vortices, are powerful and organized spirals. Now, imagine light that behaves the same way: a beam of light that spins as it moves forward. This "twisted" light, known as an optical vortex, can carry more information than normal light, opening the door to faster internet and ultra-secure communications. /news/2025-08-ultra-thin-materials-optical-vortices.html Optics & Photonics Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:27:03 EDT news674836021 Researchers have developed a high-speed 3D imaging microscope that can capture detailed cell dynamics of an entire small whole organism at once. The ability to image 3D changes in real time over a large field of view could lead to new insights in developmental biology and neuroscience. /news/2025-08-multifocus-microscope-limits-fast-3d.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:00:01 EDT news674382481 Between 50 and 100 kilometers (30–60 miles) above the Earth's surface lies a largely unstudied stretch of the atmosphere, called the mesosphere. It's too high for airplanes and weather balloons, too low for satellites, and nearly impossible to monitor with existing technology. But understanding this layer of the atmosphere could improve the accuracy of weather forecasts and climate models. /news/2025-08-sunlight-powered-window-earth-upper.html Space Exploration Planetary Sciences Wed, 13 Aug 2025 11:00:07 EDT news674214119 Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, in collaboration with the Optical Systems Division at Broadcom Inc., report a broadband, polarization-insensitive unidirectional imager that operates in the visible spectrum, capable of high-efficiency image transmission in one direction while effectively suppressing image formation in the reverse direction. /news/2025-08-wafer-scale-nano-fabrication-multi.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:27:02 EDT news674148421 Synthetic antiferromagnets are carefully engineered magnetic materials made up of alternating ferromagnetic layers with oppositely aligned magnetic moments, separated by a non-magnetic spacer. These materials can display interesting magnetization patterns, characterized by swift changes in the behavior of magnetic moments in response to external forces, such as radio frequency (RF) currents. /news/2025-07-rabi-nonlinear-interactions-magnons-synthetic.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Sun, 20 Jul 2025 09:00:01 EDT news672051455 A multinational research team, including engineers from the University of Cambridge and Zhejiang University, has developed a breakthrough in miniaturized spectrometer technology that could dramatically expand the accessibility and functionality of spectral imaging in everyday devices. /news/2025-07-plastic-based-spectrometers-compact-solution.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:15:51 EDT news671444135 New research into the anatomy of blue sharks (Prionace glauca) reveals a unique nanostructure in their skin that produces their iconic blue coloration, but intriguingly, also suggests a potential capacity for color change. /news/2025-07-nanostructures-blue-sharks-reveal-remarkable.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:50:01 EDT news671267534 Traditional medical tests often require clinical samples to be sent off-site for analysis in a time-intensive and expensive process. Point-of-care diagnostics are instead low-cost, easy-to-use, and rapid tests performed at the site of patient care. Recently, researchers at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology reported new and optimized techniques to develop better biosensors for the early detection of disease biomarkers. /news/2025-07-nanoscale-advance-biosensing.html Bio & Medicine Nanophysics Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:52:04 EDT news670611122 Our immune system is designed to protect us by recognizing and attacking infected or abnormal cells. However, cancer cells often manage to "cheat" the immune system by pretending to be healthy cells and thus disabling immune cell attack mechanisms. /news/2025-06-nanostructures-boost-car-cell-potency.html Bio & Medicine Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:04:59 EDT news668271891 With recent advancements in technology, the Internet of Things and wireless devices are in high demand. However, these innovations also raise concerns about prolonged exposure to electromagnetic radiation (EMR), which may pose potential risks to eye health. /news/2025-06-mxene-coated-lenses-safer-smarter.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:00:01 EDT news668163961 Superconductivity is an advantageous property observed in some materials, which entails an electrical resistance of zero at extremely low temperatures. Superconductors, materials that exhibit this property, have proved to be highly promising for the development of various electronic components for both classical and quantum technologies. /news/2025-05-superconducting-diode-bridge-efficiently-ac.html Superconductivity Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 28 May 2025 06:30:02 EDT news667557618 One of the most profound open questions in modern physics is: "Is gravity quantum?" The other fundamental forces—electromagnetic, weak, and strong—have all been successfully described, but no complete and consistent quantum theory of gravity yet exists. /news/2025-05-gravity-quantum-laser-cooling-torsional.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 21 May 2025 10:46:42 EDT news667043193 What if doctors could guide life-saving treatments through the body using only a magnet? An interdisciplinary collaboration at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering is bringing that concept closer to reality with the development of silk iron microparticles (SIMPs)—tiny, magnetic, and biodegradable carriers designed to precisely deliver drugs and treatments to sites in the body, like aneurysms or tumors. /news/2025-04-tiny-magnetic-silk-iron-particles.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:54:04 EDT news665164442 When farmers apply pesticides to their crops, 30 to 50% of the chemicals end up in the air or soil instead of on the plants. Now, a team of researchers from MIT and Singapore has developed a much more precise way to deliver substances to plants: tiny needles made of silk. /news/2025-04-scientists-silk-microneedles-nutrients-chemicals.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:18:05 EDT news665151481 In a development that could reshape the future of microelectronics, optics, and biomedicine, researchers from Jinan University, in collaboration with the Institute of Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have unveiled a new nanoprinting technology that simultaneously achieves unprecedented resolution and efficiency. /news/2025-04-quantum-photon-strategy-powers-generation.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:06:04 EDT news665057161 In a physics first, a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a way to make beams of neutrons travel in curves. These Airy beams (named for English scientist George Airy), which the team created using a custom-built device, could enhance neutrons' ability to reveal useful information about materials ranging from pharmaceuticals to perfumes to pesticides—in part because the beams can bend around obstacles. /news/2025-04-neutron-benefits-straight-industry.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Optics & Photonics Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:37:04 EDT news664119422 The Earth's magnetic field quietly supports life on the planet and now, for the first time, its invisible powers have been used to create new nanoparticles and materials. /news/2025-04-earth-magnetic-field-impact-fluid.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:10:06 EDT news663931964 Twisted moiré photonic crystals—an advanced type of optical metamaterial—have shown enormous potential in the race to engineer smaller, more capable and more powerful optical systems. How do they work? /news/2025-04-crystals-door-smaller-powerful-sensors.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:08:04 EDT news662904481 Applied physicists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a photon router that could plug into quantum networks to create robust optical interfaces for noise-sensitive microwave quantum computers. /news/2025-04-router-photons-transducer-enable-superconducting.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 02 Apr 2025 05:00:05 EDT news662715062 Imagine walking into your kitchen and instantly knowing if the fish you bought yesterday is still fresh—or entering an industrial site with sensors that immediately alert you to hazardous gas leaks. This isn't science fiction—it's the promise behind our newly developed nanomechanical sensor array, a powerful tool we've created to detect and analyze complex gases in real-time. /news/2025-03-nanomechanical-gas-sensor-arrays-smarter.html Nanomaterials Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:00:05 EDT news662633617 Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support future advances in space exploration and experimental physics. Their research, published in Nature Communications, introduces new materials and production methods to create the thinnest large-scale reflectors ever made. /news/2025-03-scalable-nanotechnology-based-lightsails-generation.html Space Exploration Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:27:03 EDT news662045221 Metals, as most know them, are good conductors of electricity. That's because the countless electrons in a metal like gold or silver move more or less freely from one atom to the next, their motion impeded only by occasional collisions with defects in the material. /news/2025-03-elusive-quantum-particles-bad-metal.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:40:04 EDT news662038802 Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have unveiled a new optical technology that enables precise focusing of light—only in one direction. This novel unidirectional focusing design uses structured diffractive layers that are optimized using deep learning to transmit light efficiently in the forward direction of operation while effectively suppressing unwanted backward focusing of light. /news/2025-03-unveil-unidirectional-focusing-diffractive-optics.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:10:13 EDT news662026202 How does the armored tiling on shark and ray cartilage maintain a continuous covering as the animals' skeletons expand during growth? /news/2025-03-stingrays-reveal-nature-elegant-solution.html Plants & Animals Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:36:03 EDT news661527361