'Magnificent 7' Unveiled
Sep. 30, 2008
Aspera, a network of European government agencies responsible for coordinating and funding national...
Gold Nanoparticles Go Green
Sep. 29, 2008
Until recently, creating gold nanoparticles has produced synthetic chemicals that have a negative...
The $10M Light Bulb
Sep. 29, 2008
The Department of Energy (DoE) wants to give you $10 million. That is, of course, if you can come...
Mass Spectrometry Imaging
Sep. 26, 2008
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers from the Colleges of Sciences and Engineering have...
A Molecule’s Solo Sparkle
Sep. 25, 2008
While a group of fluorescent molecules may appear to work synchronously, a closer look reveals...
Biosensors Measure Molecules
Sep. 24, 2008
A new class of disposable, photonic crystal biosensors has been developed that can detect...
Optics to Spy Alien Worlds?
Sep. 24, 2008
Roughly 13 years ago astronomers found and confirmed the existence of the first planet outside the...
Time-eating Beast
Sep. 23, 2008
When Stephen Hawking is selected for an unveiling, you know something big is happening. And indeed,...
Physicists Get Genius Grants
Sep. 23, 2008
An optical physicist who demonstrated that power can be transmitted wirelessly, a physicist who...
LHC: No Smashing Until Spring
Sep. 23, 2008
Investigation into the cause of a large helium leak at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and repairs...
Oxford Sells Unit to Riber
Sep. 23, 2008
High technology tools and systems company Oxford Instruments plc and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)...
LHC Repairs to Take Months
Sep. 22, 2008
A faulty electrical connection between two magnets was most likely the cause of a magnet quench...
Predicting the Kondo Effect
Sep. 22, 2008
Scientists at the IBM Almaden Research Center have discovered a major advancement in fundamental...
Sound Focuses Liquid Lens
Sep. 22, 2008
A tiny new lens made of two water droplets can change focus when high frequency sounds cause the...
The BOSS’ Dark Energy
Sep. 19, 2008
Located on Apache Point, a mountaintop in New Mexico, a 2.5-meter telescope is mapping the...
Quench Latest LHC Setback
Sep. 19, 2008
A magnet quench Friday that resulted in a large helium leak is the latest setback for the Large...
Nano Safety Center Formed
Sep. 18, 2008
A new government-funded Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEINT) is...
Ultracold Polar Gas
Sep. 18, 2008
In what could potentially provide breakthrough applications in quantum computing, precision...
Heating Up Microscopy
Sep. 17, 2008
Bioengineers at Duke University are using nanospheres of gold to create a photothermal optical...
Coating Copies Biosurfaces
Sep. 17, 2008
A thin coating of glass has been used to rapidly and inexpensively copy the micro- and...
Jefferson Lab Upgrade OK'd
Sep. 16, 2008
Less than a week after the largest particle accelerator in the world launched its first beams near...
Brandeis Wins $7.8M Grant
Sep. 16, 2008
The National Science Foundation has awarded Brandeis University a $7.8 million grant to finance a...
Wafer-thin Germanium
Sep. 15, 2008
By reducing the waste and breakage of the brittle germanium-based semiconductor, University of Utah...
Green Photonics Forum
Sep. 12, 2008
The market for green photonic components could exceed $100 billion by 2015, according to Michael...
Tumor-targeting Nanodevices
Sep. 12, 2008
Dubbed nano-sized cargo ships, scientists from UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and MIT are boasting...
e2v Acquires QP Semi
Sep. 11, 2008
QP Semiconductor, a privately held fabless semiconductor company that provides integrated circuits...
Dial-in Diagnosis
Sep. 11, 2008
It may soon be possible to draw a blood sample and have the readout sent wirelessly, via cell...
NASA Patents Going, Going...
Sep. 11, 2008
Sensing, global positioning and computer systems technologies developed at NASA Goddard Space...
TEAM Yields Stunning Images
Sep. 11, 2008
The world's most powerful transmission electron microscope has been used to produce stunning images...
Trumpf Acquiring SPI Lasers
Sep. 10, 2008
Trumpf GmbH + Co. KG of Germany, a technology group that makes laser-based products and solutions...
Collider Beams Up at CERN
Sep. 10, 2008
After 20-plus years of planning, billions of dollars, lawsuits, and even death threats, the first...
Photonics in South Africa
Sep. 10, 2008
The photonics industry is alive and well in South Africa. So much so, that a photonics initiative,...
Threats Won't Stop Collider
Sep. 9, 2008
Despite death threats, lawsuits, and even physicist Stephen Hawking betting against it, the Large...
Lasers Analyze Coal Plants
Sep. 9, 2008
With worldwide demand for coal surging in the wake of ballooning gasoline prices, it’s no wonder...
Halma Buys Fiberguide
Sep. 9, 2008
Sensor, safety and technology group Halma announced Tuesday it has acquired Fiberguide Industries...
Rofin Buys Stake in Laser Biz
Sep. 9, 2008
Industrial laser maker Rofin-Sinar Technologies Inc. announced it will acquire an 80 percent stake...
'Pyrex'-like Nanoparticles
Sep. 8, 2008
Researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have reported a new procedure that...
Molecular Breast Imaging
Sep. 5, 2008
Researchers have found a way to “light up” cancer hiding in dense breast tissue.
In the...
Laser Comb is Ultraprecise
Sep. 5, 2008
A laser frequency comb, a new calibration technique that combines the incredible precision of an...
Helium Ion Microscope
Sep. 5, 2008
“It's the physics,” explained Andras Vladar, of the National Institute of Standards and...
Feds Raid Spectranetics
Sep. 5, 2008
Spectranetics Corp. said it is cooperating fully with an investigation related to its products and...
Helios Project Awarded $12M
Sep. 4, 2008
Helios, a four-year project that seeks to find an innovative way to combine a photonic layer with a...
Probe IDs Atomic Fingerprint
Sep. 4, 2008
A new way of measuring a quantum system's energy level could help overcome a key barrier to the...
Sonofusion Scholar Sanctioned
Sep. 4, 2008
A Purdue University professor found to have committed research misconduct will remain on the...
Newport Outsourcing Lasers
Sep. 3, 2008
Newport Corp. will move some of its laser and other manufacturing to China and cut about 10 percent...
Science Medalists Announced
Sep. 3, 2008
President George W. Bush has announced the recipients of the 2007 National Medal of Science and the...
Atom Smasher Dates Fine Wine
Sep. 3, 2008
French scientists are using high-energy ion beams from a particle accelerator to tell vintage...
Perfect LSST Mirror Blank
Sep. 2, 2008
More than 100 astronomers, physicists and engineers throughout the country are celebrating a major...