Quite by accident, Washington State University researchers have achieved a 400-fold increase in the electrical conductivity of a crystal simply by exposing it to light. The effect, which las... Read more
Imagine living on a bustling city block, but free from the noise of car horns and people on the street. The emerging field of phononics could one day make this a reality. The phonon, like th... Read more
Unexpected result shows that in some cases, pulling apart makes cracks in metal fuse together. It was a result so unexpected that MIT researchers initially thought it must be a mistake: Unde... Read more
Engineering researchers at the University of Michigan have demonstrated a paradigm-shifting “polariton” laser that’s fueled not by light, but by electricity. Polaritons are... Read more
Physicists of the University of Vienna together with researchers from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna developed nano-machines which recreate principal activities... Read more
“A completely new way may open up of using heat in microchips in a beneficial way instead of having to dissipate it by cooling” Since its invention 50 years ago, laser light has... Read more
“If we time things right, the robot can jump with a tenth of the power required to jump to the same height under other conditions,” A new study shows that jumping can be much more complicate... Read more
A novel solution has been identified that will make the production of special class of photons faster and easier In the age of high-speed computing, the photon is king. However, producing th... Read more
Prof Woodward is in the minority in thinking that the consumer market will benefit widely from quantum computers What is a quantum computer and when can I have one? It makes use of all that... Read more