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High-tech contact lenses correct color blindness
Researchers have incorporated ultra-thin optical devices known as metasurfaces into off-the-shelf contact lenses to correct deuteranomaly, a form of red-green color blindness. The new customizable contact lens could offer a...
Researchers identify breaking point of conducting material
An improved method to predict the temperature when plastics change from supple to brittle, which could potentially accelerate future development of flexible electronics, was developed by Penn State College of...
All optical control of exciton flow in a colloidal quantum well complex
Exciton-based solid-state devices have the potential to be essential building blocks for modern information technology to slow down the end of Moore's law. Exploiting excitonic devices requires the ability to...
A talented 2-D material gets a new gig
Ever since graphene's discovery in 2004, scientists have looked for ways to put this talented, atomically thin 2-D material to work. Thinner than a single strand of DNA yet 200...
A small step for atoms, a giant leap for microelectronics
Step by step, scientists are figuring out new ways to extend Moore's Law. The latest reveals a path toward integrated circuits with two-dimensional transistors.
Micromotors get supercharged with three 'engines'
Someday, microscopic robots could perform useful functions, such as diagnostic testing in lab-on-a-chip sensors, micropatterning surfaces or repairing equipment in tight spaces. But first, scientists need to be able to...
Expanding the plasmonic painter's palette
By blending paints in their palette, artists can create a broad spectrum of colors with subtly different hues. However, scientists who wish to create a similar range of structural colors,...
Exciting apparatus helps atoms see the light
Researchers in the Light-Matter Interactions for Quantum Technologies Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have generated Rydberg atoms—unusually large excited atoms—near nanometer-thin optical fibers....
DNA sugars characterised in unprecedented resolution, atom by atom
A piece of research work conducted by the Spectroscopy Group of the UPV/EHU's Department of Physical Chemistry, and the Biofisika Institute provides the cover of the latest issue of the...
First bufferless 1.5 μm III-V lasers grown directly on silicon wafers in Si-photonics
Researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have reported the world's first 1.5 μm III-V lasers directly grown on the industry-standard 220 nm SOI (silicon-on-insulators) wafers...
Nanoscale spectroscopy review showcases a bright future
Modern society is working closer to the nanoscale than it realises. Breakthroughs and advances in developing and manipulating nanostructures have led to technological progress that not only drives imaging and...
Gold-coated pantyhose inspire a technique for comfortable light-emitting clothing
An approach for developing light-emitting fabric based on typical ultrasheer pantyhose coated in a thin gold film may enable the development of softer, more wearable luminous clothing, researchers in Canada...
Pro Bowl safety Mike Adams retires from NFL
Two-time Pro Bowl safety Mike Adams announced his retirement from the NFL on Wednesday on NFL Network.
Scientists unravel synthetic mechanism of arylpentazole and substituent effect
Recently, a research team led by Prof. Liu Jianyong and Prof. Han Keli from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences unraveled the synthetic...
Mpemba effect: The fastest way to heat certain materials may be to cool them first
To heat a slice of pizza, you probably wouldn't consider first chilling it in the fridge. But a theoretical study suggests that cooling, as a first step before heating, may...
25 years on: A single top quark partners with the Z boson
A quarter-century after its discovery, physicists at the ATLAS Experiment at CERN are gaining new insight into the heaviest-known particle, the top quark. The huge amount of data collected during...
Machine learning accelerates high-performance materials development and deployment
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and its partners rely on timely development and deployment of diverse materials to support a variety of national security missions. However, materials development and deployment...
Coherent phonon dynamics realized in spatially separated mechanical resonators
A research group led by Prof. Guo Guoping, Song Xiangxiang, Deng Guangwei (now at UESTC), from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,...
Novel pulse duration achieved by laser beamline
Significant advances in ultra-intense and ultra-short laser technology have led numerous laboratories to develop tabletop PW-class laser systems as a means of investigating laser-matter interactions in a relativistic regime. The...
3 reasons carbon capture and storage has stalled needlessly
The idea is simple: capture and concentrate CO2 before it's released to the air and store it deep underground where it can't escape. Instead of adding to the climate crisis,...
A theoretical approach to understand the mechanisms of 3-D spatiotemporal mode-locking
Laser technology confines light inside a resonator containing a gain medium, a material with quantum properties that can amplify light. As laser resonators are generally far larger than the wavelength...
Probing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials
The term “colloidal gel” may not be a household name, but examples of these materials are everywhere in our daily lives, from toothpaste and shower gel to mayonnaise and yogurt....
Probing microscopic wiggles in squishy materials
The term "colloidal gel" may not be a household phrase, but examples of these materials are everywhere in our daily lives, from toothpaste and shower gel to mayonnaise and yogurt....
A sound boost to extreme laser performance
Diamond is a particularly interesting material for this type of laser for two key reasons. Its high thermal conductivity means it is possible to make miniature lasers that simultaneously have...
Movies with Hugh Jackman, Awkwafina to screen at Tribeca Film Festival
The 2020 edition of New York's Tribeca Film Festival will include 115 films from 33 countries.
Embedded droplet printing-technology controllably prints and processes droplets that are suspended in place
Researchers from Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, and National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a unique method for generating and processing fluid...
Biomaterial discovery enables 3-D printing of tissue-like vascular structures
An international team of scientists have discovered a new material that can be 3-D printed to create tissue-like vascular structures.
Supercomputers drive ion transport research
For a long time, nothing. Then all of a sudden, something. Wonderful things in nature can burst on the scene after long periods of dullness—rare events such as protein folding,...