Optics News
May 22, 2025
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May 14, 2025 — have created a new type of insect cyborg that can navigate autonomously -- without wires, surgery, or stress-inducing electrical shocks. The system uses a small ultraviolet (UV) light helmet to steer cockroaches by taking advantage of their natural ...
May 22, 2025 — Neuroscientists and materials scientists have created contact lenses that enable infrared vision in both humans and mice by converting infrared light into visible light. Unlike infrared night vision ...
May 19, 2025 — Researchers have developed a 3D micro-printed sensor for highly sensitive on-chip biosensing, opening new opportunities for developing high-performance, cost-effective lab-on-a-chip devices for early disease ...
May 21, 2025 — A new camera setup can record three-dimensional movies with a single pixel. Moreover, the technique can obtain images outside the visible spectrum and even through tissues. The development thus opens the door to holographic video ...
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May 15, 2025 — A new study explores how EOS transmits ultrashort laser pulses through crystals that change in response to an applied electric field. This technique allows researchers to accurately capture the shape ...
May 14, 2025 — Researchers have developed a simple method to explore a complex area of quantum science. The discovery makes research in this field cheaper and more ...
May 12, 2025 — Massive ripples in the very fabric of space and time wash over Earth constantly, although you'd never notice. An astrophysicist is trying a new search for these gravitational ...
May 8, 2025 — Researchers have developed a technique that makes high-dimensional quantum information encoded in light more practical and reliable. The advancement ...
May 9, 2025 — Researchers have developed an innovative photodetector capable of detecting a broad range of mid-infrared ...
May 9, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new way to create hydrogels using ultrasound, eliminating the need for toxic chemical initiators. This breakthrough offers a faster, cleaner and more sustainable approach ...
May 8, 2025 — Fishing pots fitted with LED lights catch significantly more shrimp and fish, new research ...
May 8, 2025 — Augmented-reality (AR) technology is rapidly finding its way into everyday life, from education and healthcare to gaming and entertainment. However, the core AR device remains bulky and heavy, making ...
May 7, 2025 — Physicists captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal correlations among the 'free-range' particles that until now were predicted but never ...
May 7, 2025 — Our brain is a complex organ. Billions of nerve cells are wired in an intricate network, constantly processing signals, enabling us to recall memories or to move our bodies. Making sense of this ...
Earlier Headlines
May 6, 2025 — Researchers recently connected their campuses with an experimental quantum communications network using two optical ...
May 6, 2025 — Researchers captured sound fields around musical triangles. They wanted to understand the physical properties of the triangle instrument, test assumptions about the contribution of the triangle ...
May 5, 2025 — In 1959, physicists James Terrell and Roger Penrose (Nobel laureate in 2020) independently concluded that fast-moving objects should appear rotated. However, this effect has never been demonstrated. ...
May 5, 2025 — An international team has succeeded at BESSY II to elucidate how ultrafast spin-polarized current pulses can be characterized by measuring the ultrafast demagnetization in a magnetic layer system ...
May 2, 2025 — A watched pot never boils, goes the old saying, but many of us have at least kept an eye on the pot, waiting for the bubbling to start. It's satisfying to finally see the rolling boil, behind ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — Researchers demonstrated extremely strong nonlinear light-matter coupling in a quantum circuit. Stronger coupling enables faster quantum readout and operations, ultimately improving the accuracy of ...
Apr. 30, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a way to use mirrors to dramatically reduce the quantum noise that disturbs tiny particles -- a breakthrough that might seem magical but is rooted in quantum ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — A squishy, layered material that dramatically transforms under pressure could someday help computers store more data with less energy. That's according to a new study that shows a hybrid zinc ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Researchers have created a light-powered soft robot that can carry loads through the air along established tracks, similar to cable cars or aerial trams. The soft robot operates autonomously, can ...
Apr. 28, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new machine learning algorithm that excels at interpreting optical spectra, potentially enabling faster and more precise medical diagnoses and sample ...
Apr. 24, 2025 — Researchers have long recognized that quantum communication systems would transmit quantum information more faithfully and be impervious to certain forms of error if nonlinear optical processes were ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — A research team has developed an innovative single-step laser printing technique to accelerate the manufacturing of lithium-sulfur batteries. Integrating the commonly time-consuming active materials ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — Conservators and museum technicians protect precious archaeological metal objects, such as tools and weapons, with clear coatings, leaving preserved and unobstructed views of these detailed ...
Apr. 23, 2025 — The invention is a metamaterial, which is a material engineered to feature new and unusual properties that depend on the material's physical structure rather than its chemical composition. In ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — A research group has manipulated light through its interaction with a metal surface so that it exhibits entirely new ...
Apr. 22, 2025 — Researchers have developed a light-induced DNA detection method that enables rapid, PCR-free genetic analysis. Their technique offers ultra-sensitive mutation detection in just five minutes, reducing ...
Apr. 18, 2025 — A team of researchers has developed a new way to control light interactions using a specially engineered structure called a 3D photonic-crystal cavity that could enable transformative advancements in ...
Apr. 17, 2025 — Scientists have demonstrated a sort of holographic strip that splits a single laser beam into five bespoke beams that create an optical knot. The work shows that optical knots could be used as a ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — A team of researchers has identified a promising new approach that may one day help to restore vision in people affected by macular degeneration and other retinal ...
Apr. 16, 2025 — A researcher has developed an autonomous driving algorithm for agricultural robots used for greenhouse cultivation and other farm ...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
- Experimental Quantum Communications Network
- Would a Musical Triangle of Any Other Shape Sound as Sweet?
Monday, May 5, 2025
- A Snapshot of Relativistic Motion: Special Relativity Made Visible
- BESSY II: Insight Into Ultrafast Spin Processes With Femtoslicing
Friday, May 2, 2025
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Monday, April 28, 2025
- Layered Semiconductor Shows Potential for Next-Gen Data Storage
- High-Wire Act: Soft Robot Can Carry Cargo Up and Down Steep Aerial Wires
- Light-Based Data Made Clearer With New Machine Learning Method
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
- From Beam to Battery: Single-Step Laser Printing Supercharges High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
- Some Protective Resin Coatings May Damage Metal Artifacts
- Material? Robot? It's a Metabot
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- Light Fields With Extraordinary Structure: Plasmonic Skyrmion Bags
- Shining a Light on DNA: A Rapid, Ultra-Sensitive, PCR-Free Detection Method
Friday, April 18, 2025
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
- Golden Eyes: How Gold Nanoparticles May One Day Help to Restore People's Vision
- Farm Robot Autonomously Navigates, Harvests Among Raised Beds
- Researchers Introduce a Brand-New Method to Detect Gunshot Residue at the Crime Scene
- A Compact, Mid-Infrared Pulse Generator
- 'Cosmic Radio' Could Find Dark Matter in 15 Years
- Scientists Create a 'brilliantly Luminous' Nanoscale Chemical Tool
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Monday, April 14, 2025
- Photonic Computing Needs More Nonlinearity: Acoustics Can Help
- New Method for Detecting Nanoplastics in Body Fluids
Friday, April 11, 2025
- Light That Spirals Like a Nautilus Shell
- Illuminating the Twist: Light-Driven Inversion of Supramolecular Chirality
- Engineered Bacteria Emit Signals That Can Be Spotted from a Distance
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Physicists Uncover Electronic Interactions Mediated Via Spin Waves
- Revealing Capillaries and Cells in Living Organs With Ultrasound
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
- Transducer Could Enable Superconducting Quantum Networks
- A New Wave in Ultrafast Magnetic Control
- Researchers Use 'smart' Bomb Therapy to Destroy Breast Cancer
- Scientists Merge Two 'impossible' Materials Into New Artificial Structure
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
- Enhancing Light Control With Complex Frequency Excitations
- Metasurfaces: Bilayer Device Can Control Many Forms of Polarized Light
- The Experts That Can Outsmart Optical Illusions
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Monday, March 24, 2025
- 3D Nanotech Blankets Offer New Path to Clean Drinking Water
- Scientists Engineer Starfish Cells to Shape-Shift in Response to Light
Friday, March 21, 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
- Nanocellulose Treated With Red Onion Dye Provides Effective UV Protection for Solar Cells
- Good Vibrations: Scientists Discover a Groundbreaking Method for Exciting Phonon-Polaritons
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Monday, March 17, 2025
Friday, March 14, 2025
Thursday, March 13, 2025
- Spinning, Twisted Light Could Power Next-Generation Electronics
- Tiny Component for Record-Breaking Bandwidth
- Reading Magnetic States Faster -- In Far Infrared
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
- Exciting Moments on the Edge
- Catching Aromaticity in the Act: Direct Real-Time Tracking of How 'excited-State Aromaticity' Drives Molecular Shape Changes
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- Technique to Manipulate Water Waves to Precisely Control Floating Objects
- Elementary-Particle Detectors, 3D Printed
Monday, March 10, 2025
- X-Ray Snapshot: How Light Bends an Active Substance
- 'Nanodot' Control Could Fine-Tune Light for Sharper Displays, Quantum Computing
Friday, March 7, 2025
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- Researchers Reveal Nitrogen's Dominant Role in Global Organic Aerosol Absorption
- Precision Cancer Treatment Using Magnet-Guided, Heat-Activated Nanoparticles
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- Sneaky Clocks: Uncovering Einstein's Relativity in an Interacting Atomic Playground
- Quantum Dot Discovery for LEDs Brings Brighter, More Eco-Friendly Displays
- Nanoscale Tweaks Help Alloy Withstand High-Speed Impacts
- A Method to Purify Proteins With Light: Gentler and More Efficient Than Previous Procedures
- Neural Network Deciphers Gravitational Waves from Merging Neutron Stars in a Second
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- Cold Atoms on a Chip
- Researchers Unveil Neuromorphic Exposure Control System to Improve Machine Vision in Extreme Lighting Environments
Monday, March 3, 2025
- Quantum Properties in Atom-Thick Semiconductors Offer New Way to Detect Electrical Signals in Cells
- From Handicap to Asset: AI Approach Leverages Optics Phenomenon to Produce Better Images
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- Time Interfaces: The Gateway to Four-Dimensional Quantum Optics
- Novel Photochromic Glass Can Store Rewritable 3D Patterns Long Term
- Multiplexing Entanglement in a Quantum Network
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Toward High Electro-Optic Performance in III-V Semiconductors
- From Defect to High-Tech Material
- A Completely New Type of Microscopy Based on Quantum Sensors
- Scientists Design Battery That Runs on Atomic Waste
- Mimicking Shark Skin to Create Clean Cutting Boards
Friday, February 21, 2025
- New Microscope Can Image, at Once, the Full 3D Orientation and Position of Molecules in Cells
- Microcomb Chips Help Pave the Way for Thousand Times More Accurate GPS Systems
- Highly Uniform Nanocrystals Synthesized by Liquid Crystalline Antisolvent
- Self-Imaging of Structured Light in New Dimensions
- Illuminating the Proton's Inner Workings
Thursday, February 20, 2025
- Chip-Based System for Terahertz Waves Could Enable More Efficient, Sensitive Electronics
- Giant X-Ray Facility Shows That Magnets Can Reduce Flaws in 3D Printed Components
- Breakthrough Study Challenges Long-Held Beliefs About the Shape of Atomic Nuclei
- Revolutionizing Dynamic Facial Projection Mapping: A Leap Forward in Augmented Reality
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
- New Sensor Can Take Any Gas and Tell You What's in It
- Magnetic Switch Traps Quantum Information Carriers in One Dimension
- Using Light to Activate Treatments in the Right Place