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Researchers in the UK and Spain have successfully created the first practical metamaterial sample that interacts with visible light. Metamaterials are a class of... Read More »
Using lasers to excite just one atom from a cloud of ultra-cold rubidium gas, physicists have developed a new way to efficiently create single photons for potential... Read More »
A team of physicists at UC Santa Barbara has seen the light, and it comes in many different colors. By aiming high- and low-frequency laser beams at a semiconductor... Read More »
Piezoelectrics have found application in countless devices from watches, radios and ultrasound to the push-button starters on propane grills, but these uses all... Read More »
Scientists at ETH Zurich used a set of laser beams to create a honeycomb-like structure similar to that found in graphene. By loading ultracold atoms into this... Read More »
Electrochemical capacitors (ECs), also known as supercapacitors or ultracapacitors, differ from regular capacitors that you would find in your TV or computer in that... Read More »
With a molecular 'origami' technique, researchers at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich can program the basic structure of their material at will by... Read More »
Verizon and NEC Corporation of America have transmitted high bit-rate technologies over field fiber. The latest trial successfully transmitted 21.7 terabits per... Read More »
Cisco today announced that SURFnet has completed a technology test of Cisco's 100G DWDM solution between the National Supercomputing Center, SARA, in... Read More »
Cisco announced the successful demonstration and validation of its coherent 100 Gigabit (100G) dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) solution exceeding 3,000... Read More »
In an experimental tour de force that could assist in the development of highly sensitive sensors for electric and magnetic fields with frequencies ranging from... Read More »
The tools and techniques which will eventually bring quantum computing within our grasp are undergoing fast and furious development – so much so that it is... Read More »
Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed an endoscope that can provide high-resolution optical images of the interior of a single... Read More »
Agilent Technologies announced today that Budapest Technology University successfully conducted research after installing Agilent's SuperNova diffractometer ... Read More »
As a child who watched countless hours of science fiction classics; War of the Worlds, Star Trek, Star Wars, and Howard the Duck (Yes, Howard the Duck. How can... Read More »