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Imaging Cells with DNA Microscopy Compiles Genomic Information
Traditionally, scientists have used light, x-rays, and electrons to peer inside tissues and cells. Today, scientists can trace thread-like fibers of nerves throughout the brain and even watch living mouse embryos conjure the... -
Lasers Can Scan Large Areas for Hazardous Materials
Researchers have developed a new laser-based method that can detect electric charges and chemicals of interest with unprecedented sensitivity. The new approach could one day offer a way to scan large areas for radioactive... -
New Wire Additive Manufacturing Project
The NEWAM (New Wire Additive Manufacturing) project has a vision to transform large-area metal additive manufacture, by pioneering new high build-rate wire based processes with greater precision of shape and microstructure. It... -
Recording Music with Rydberg Atoms
The group at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, Colorado (US), spent six years finding a way to directly measure electric fields using atoms, so who can blame them for then having a little fun... -
Solar-Powered Approach to Purifying Salt Water with Sunlight and Nanoparticles
Rice University's solar-powered approach for purifying salt water with sunlight and nanoparticles is even more efficient than its creators first believed. Researchers in Rice's Laboratory for... -
Atherosclerotic Plaque Imaging with Photoacoustic Radar
In an article published in the peer-reviewed SPIE publication Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO), "Frequency-domain differential photoacoustic radar: theory and validation for ultra-sensitive atherosclerotic plaque... -
European Photonics Research Consortium Gets Thousands of Girls into STEM
According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), fewer than 30% of the world's researchers are women. However, a new outreach project has been tackling this underrepresentation by engaging young female minds...
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Thin Film Hides Objects from Infrared Detectors
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an aerogel film made of DuPont Kevlar fibers that makes objects invisible to infrared detectors. A successful method for hiding objects from heat-sensing cameras could be... -
Measuring and Self-Adjusting Spectral Power Distribution of LED Systems
Researchers from the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) at the University of Barcelona and its spin-off Ledmotive Technologies in Spain have combined two computational methods to enable solid-state lighting (SSL) to measure and... -
Perovskite NIR LED with Record External Quantum Efficiency
Researchers at Linköping University (LiU) in Sweden have produced near-infrared (NIR) light-emitting diodes (LED) of perovskite with a record external quantum efficiency of 21.6%. Because perovskites have good light-emitting properties and... -
Optical Tweezers Use Fluid Flow Instead of Light
Researchers from the universities of Glasgow, Bristol and Exeter have collaborated to create an entirely new kind of optical tweezers that use fluid flow instead of light to control particles of any material and hold light-sensitive biological... -
First of its Kind Quantum Sensor to Detect Single Photons
A new, groundbreakingly effective sensor developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario (Canada) is the first of its kind, based on semiconductor nanowires, that can detect photons. The research breakthrough promises to... -
Graphene-Based Wearable Health Monitoring and Spectroscopy Devices
The Graphene Flagship has introduced more than 20 graphene-based prototypes at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019. Four of the inventions were developed by Graphene Flagship partner ICFO — the Institute of Photonic Sciences, based in Barcelona,... -
Portable and Label-Free Imaging of Molecules and Cells
A custom portable optical imaging system developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) visualizes the dynamic cellular and molecular features in freshly removed or biopsied breast tissue specimens, as opposed the...
