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Optomechanical Crystal: Future Blue Oyster Cult Concerts Will Be Awesome

... that are similar to those found in the semiconductor and photonics industries. Collectively, this means that phonons have joined photons ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2012 - 9:59pm - 0 attachments

The Rise Of Open Access Scientific Publishing

... rapidly reports on the latest developments in optics and photonics. Elsevier Delayed Access Journals  ::  ...

Article - Matthew T. Dearing - Feb 8 2012 - 10:02pm - 0 attachments

Acupuncture No Better Than Placebo And May Be Harmful

Acupuncture is advocated by some for pain control but there are doubts about its effectiveness and its safety.   Investigators from the Universities of Exeter&Plymouth (Exeter, UK) and the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (Daejeon, South Kore ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2011 - 8:40am - 0 attachments

Energy And The Great Experiment

For most of human history, technology changed very little during a person’s lifetime. Certainty, their life was not constant with the hard agricultural life being interrupted by war, disease, and famine. However, very few new technologies would come into ...

Article - David LePoire - Dec 3 2011 - 8:27pm - 0 attachments

Giant Invisible Space Ribbon

Where are we?  Cosmically, I mean.  We have barely made steps to get to the edge of our solar system, via Voyager 1 and 2.  It's ironic that we can see back 13 billion years using telescopes, but we have little idea of what 'stuff' is out there-- matt ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jan 15 2010 - 9:46pm - 0 attachments

Senators, Please Do Not Cut Science Research

... high-speed computing, advanced materials and photonics, as wellas high energy physics, nuclear physics and fusion energy ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 6 2011 - 12:22pm - 0 attachments

Engineers Turn Noise Into Vision With Stochastic Resonance

... surgery. The findings were reported online in Nature Photonics . In their experiments, Princeton electrical engineers Jason ... noisy images via dynamical stochastic resonance', Nature Photonics, March 2010; doi: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.31 ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2011 - 10:02am - 0 attachments

Living Lasers

... Research published online on June 12th, 2011 in Nature Photonics (Gather and Yun, 2011) used a living cell to generate a laser (see ... Yun, S.H. (2011). Single-cell biological lasers. Nature Photonics. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.99. (Microbiology) ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Jun 14 2011 - 2:56pm - 0 attachments

Superfluids, BECs And Bosenovas: The Ultimate Experiment

In a familiar world of solids, liquids and gases, we find the fourth state of matter, the plasmas of lightning to the aurora borealis and fluorescent tubes at the office. Further out, minor phenomena becomes the big event in space, our shining stars are ...

Article - Alan Gillis - Sep 1 2008 - 9:39pm - 0 attachments

The New Quantaurus Series Offers Quick, Easy Measurements Of The Fluorescence Lifetime And Quantum Yield Of Photoluminescent Materials

... New Jersey, March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Hamamatsu Photonics has introduced the new Quantaurus series of compact instruments for ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 1 2011 - 12:30pm - 0 attachments