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Michael Eisenstein
Freelance Science Writer & Editor

Michael EisensteinContributing Editor Michael Eisenstein studied biology at Brown University and Rockefeller University. He has worked as a freelance science journalist and as an editor for the past 10 years.

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By Michael Eisenstein

April 2025
Directed Energy Technologies Mount an Energetic Response to the Drone Threat
“Keep your eye on the sky” is a critical rule in modern warfare, due to the rapid proliferation of low-cost, speedy uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs). These aircraft can be fitted with...
January 2025
Ready for Takeoff: Drone-Based Sensing Takes Flight
Mines are inherently challenging places to work, but even within such an environment, certain tasks are considered particularly risky. In the aftermath of a blasting operation, for example, miners...
November 2024
Embedded Vision Systems Usher Deep Learning into the Imaging Domain
How would one decide which potato to select out of a group? Most people have an intuitive sense that guides them when selecting a spud, for example, at the market or from the garden, but it becomes...
June 2024
Photonics Charts Its Course in Helping Athletes Reach Peak Performance
Michael Matter’s journey into sports technology began with a golf ball. More specifically, a photo of a golf ball that was captured at its precise moment of impact with a club head. The photo...
May 2024
As Biosensors Shrink, Their Potential Applications Grow
Early in his career, Benjamin Miller was focused on drug discovery and strategies for studying how potential medicines bind to their target proteins. There was only one problem: “All of the...
April 2024
A Quantum Leap for Sensitive Gas Analysis
Far above an oil pipeline, a drone bobs and weaves. The drone, dispatched by Denver, Colorado-based Project Canary, is collecting high-resolution imaging data of the site, while also scanning for any...
January 2024
As Biosensors Shrink, Their Potential Applications Grow
Early in his career, Benjamin Miller was focused on drug discovery and strategies for studying how potential medicines bind to their target proteins. There was only one problem: “All of the...
April 2023
Photovoltaics Power an Indoor Revolution
Readers of a certain age may recall getting through math and science courses with the assistance of a trusty solar-powered calculator that could harvest just enough ambient light from the classroom...
January 2023
Photonics Brightens the Future for Augmented Reality
Out in the Gulf of Mexico, an offshore oil rig experiences a critical mechanical failure. The engineers with the expertise to fix the problem are back on the mainland, and flying them to the site on...
May 2022
As PIC Production Ramps Up, Fabricators Eye Alignment Options
The early 2000s saw the rapidly growing global appetite for data collide with the limitations of copper-based wire networks. The performance of these conventional data transmission systems declined...
March 2022
Precision Optics Shape Both the Light and the Limits of High-Power Lasers
High-power lasers have become a standard and ubiquitous tool in many industrial applications, due, in part, to the precisely controllable energy that they provide. But “high power” can be...
November 2021
A Wealth of Photonic Solutions Fuels Momentum for Automotive Lidar
The dream of fully autono­mous, driverless cars remains just that for now — a vision of a future that will require considerable effort from engineers and programmers to realize. But other,...
July 2021
Industry-Academia Partnerships Exceed the Sum of Their Parts
When Irfan Punekar first began considering where to pursue his degree in computer engineering, he had an important item on his wish list. “I definitely wanted a school where I could get...
June 2021
3D Imaging Sees Growth in Multiple Dimensions
From time to time, we all find ourselves forced to rummage through the cluttered jumble of our home “junk drawer” to dig out a screwdriver, battery, paper clip, or other much-needed...
January 2021
3D Imaging Sees Growth in Multiple Dimensions
From time to time, we all find ourselves forced to rummage through the cluttered jumble of our home “junk drawer” to dig out a screwdriver, battery, paper clip, or other much-needed...
May 2020
All-Optical Switching Alternatives for Data Processing
For decades, computer technology has steadily achieved astonishing gains in performance, but it is becoming increasingly unclear how much longer this rapid progress can continue without considerable...
April 2020
OLED Technology Gives Displays New Flexibility
For generations, televisions were furniture — bulky appliances that were nearly impossible to ignore, even when turned off. But at this past January’s Consumer Electronics Show, LG...
December 2019
Infrared Sensors Offer Insights into Invisible Threats
Mark Zondlo has an atmospheric chemistry laboratory at Princeton University, but you may have a hard time finding him there. Most of his team’s environmental research is conducted in the real...
November 2019
Digital Cinema Faces a Bright Future
Over the past 40 years, audiences have grown accustomed to seeing lasers used on screen in blockbuster action and science fiction films. More recently, lasers have carved out an essential role behind...
May 2019
Photovoltaic Technologies Aim for Higher Efficiency Ratings
In a time of growing concern about climate change and the high cost of humanity’s carbon footprint, there are glimmers of hope. A global boom in sustainable energy investment is underway. The...

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