“Provides enormous cost-benefits and advantage over traditional photonic systems” A pair of breakthroughs in the field of silicon photonics by researchers at the University of Colorado... Read more
Stranger than fiction: British survey shows that large swaths of people believe in light sabers, hoverboards, teleportation and invisibility cloaks. It is often said that reality is far stra... Read more
Scientists have learned how to make photons bind together to form ‘solid light,’ a technology similar to the lightsabers from “Star Wars” movies. To the dismay of Sta... Read more
Not Quite Yet, but in the Journal “Physics of Plasmas,” Researchers from National Ignition Facility Show Just How Close We’ve Come The dream of igniting a self-sustained fu... Read more
Particles that deliver vaccines directly to mucosal surfaces could defend against many infectious diseases. Many viruses and bacteria infect humans through mucosal surfaces, such as those in... Read more
One of the limiting factors of 3D-printing is the actual size of the printer. To 3D-print large objects, you’ll either have to divide the object into several parts or find yourself a large 3... Read more
This new ability could one day allow for 3-D High Definition video transmissions in deep space to become routine. When NASA’s Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) begins operation... Read more
UH PHYSICISTS FIND A COMPOUND TO MORE EFFICIENTLY CONVERT WASTE HEAT TO ELECTRICAL POWER Physicists at the University of Houston’s physics department and the Texas Center for Superconductivi... Read more
In the age of the Internet, it’s getting harder and harder to keep secrets. When you type in your password, there’s no telling who might be watching it go by. However, new research at Cornel... Read more
The future of biomedical innovation depends in part on a new trend for all players in biomedical innovation to work together for the common goal, say 2 MIT researchers It’s a long, exp... Read more
Surveillance is certainly much in the news lately. Most notably, of course, there is the continuing outcry over the National Security Agency’s call-tracking program, disclosed in the documen... Read more
Design may support widespread use of solar and wind energy MIT researchers have engineered a new rechargeable flow battery that doesn’t rely on expensive membranes to generate and store elec... Read more