Tech: Heading towards a tsunami of light — (Report)

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have proposed a way to create a completely new source of...

Tech: Nanoscale patterning could enable precise manipulation of objects on many scales — ...

Researchers at Caltech have designed a way to levitate and propel objects using only light, by creating specific nanoscale patterning on the objects'...

Tech: A hidden phase of matter created by a burst of light — ...

"Frustration" plus a pulse of laser light resulted in a stable "supercrystal" created by a team of researchers led by Penn State and...

Tech: The skin-like material is conductive, transparent, and can repair itself either in air...

A team of scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have taken inspiration from underwater invertebrates like jellyfish to create an electronic...

Tech: An experiment at GSI simulates how heavy elements capture protons — (Report)

Heavy elements are produced during stellar explosion or on the surfaces of neutron stars through the capture of hydrogen nuclei (protons). This occurs...

Tech: Long-distance quantum information exchange — success at the nanoscale — (Report)

At the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, researchers have realized the swap of electron spins between distant quantum dots. The discovery brings...

Tech: As we develop extremely liquid repellent surfaces, the errors in existing measurement techniques...

How liquids are repelled by a surface -- a property called "wettability"- is important for engineers to develop aircraft that resist ice formation;...

Tech: Sea quark surprise reveals deeper complexity in proton spin puzzle — (Report)

New data from the STAR experiment a the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) add detail -- and complexity -- to an intriguing puzzle...

Tech: Scientists track patterns of island growth in crystals — (Report)

Argonne scientists reveal connections as crystalline layers form. Understanding how crystals grow impacts broad areas of materials science, from developing better microelectronics to discovering...

Tech: Sweat holds most promise for noninvasive testing — (Report)

Making a revolutionary biosensor takes blood, sweat and tears. And saliva, naturally. University of Cincinnati professor Jason Heikenfeld examined the potential of these and...

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