“Could significantly enhance the surgical performance of doctors and minimize surgical accidents.” Even the most skilled and steady surgeons experience minute, almost imperceptible hand tremors when performing delicate tasks. Normally, these tiny motions are inconsequential, [...]
Using precisely-targeted lasers, researchers manipulate neurons in worms’ brains and take control of their behavior In the quest to understand how the brain turns sensory input into behavior, Harvard scientists have crossed a major threshold. [...]
His big idea: develop a technology that goes on a “seek and destroy” mission for cancerous tumors. Christian Parigger, associate professor of physics at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma, wants to advance [...]
The new method can be used to grow biological tissue or to create micro sensors. There are many ways to create three dimensional objects on a micrometer scale. But how can the chemical properties of [...]
A Russian graduate has entered a laser food cutting design that relies on electromagnets into the annual James Dyson Award. The award, which has seen more than 500 candidates from 18 countries enter in 2012, provides [...]
Compact accelerators can open up new possibilities for doctors, universities and industry Not even a month since researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory‘s National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced a 500 trillion watt laser shot, researchers [...]
Paving the way for unbreakable communication networks. Single particles of light, also known as photons, have been produced and implemented into a quantum key distribution (QKD) link, paving the way for unbreakable communication networks. The [...]
Have the potential to replace electronic circuits have the potential to replace electronic circuitsPhysicists at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with colleagues in Taiwan and China, have developed the world’s smallest semiconductor [...]
Give computers a huge boost in speed and energy efficiency Electrical engineers at The University of Texas at Arlington and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised a new laser for on-chip optical connections that [...]
The technology can be especially helpful to brain cancer victims Researchers at the Center for Laser Applications at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma have developed a technology that goes on a “seek [...]
He envisions small robots carrying solid-state lasers hunting down and destroying weeds Weeds are pesky things. They grow everywhere and, by definition, where they’re not wanted. Whether a large-scale farmer or a weekend gardener, [...]
It may be possible to conjure swarms of microscopic bubble robots out of nothing . . . We’re used to thinking of robots as mechanical entities, but at very small scales, it sometimes becomes [...]