Living bacteria embedded in silicone can absorb green LED light and re-emit it as red, offering a potential sustainable ...

For most people, the magnifying-glass-shaped structure at Huairou Science City in Beijing is a high-end but inaccessible ...

Polymer thin-film optical cavities boost the magnetic sensing sensitivity of nanodiamond quantum sensors nearly fivefold ...

SSDs are, of course, the most obvious candidates to replace hard drives, particularly in modern data centers. Vendors are now ...

Archaeologists working in eastern England say they have found the earliest known traces of humans deliberately kindling fire, ...

Open the Youtube video In a quiet lab at Argonne National Laboratory, Saw-Wai Hla and his team were huddled around their instruments late one night when they detected the spectral signature they had ...

A microscope that cost less than £50 and took under 3 hours to build using a common 3D printer could be transformative for ...

Controlling light at dimensions thousands of times smaller than the thickness of a human hair is one of the pillars of modern ...

Scientists have found a way to see ultrafast molecular interactions inside liquids using an extreme laser technique once ...

Engineers have found a way to shepherd microrobots with no wires, no radios, and no onboard computers. Instead, they steer them with light patterns designed using the same math physicists use to ...

Artificial intelligence is consuming enormous amounts of energy, but researchers at the University of Florida have built a chip that could change everything by using light instead of electricity for a ...

By directly communicating with the brain, a new wireless device could someday help restore lost senses or manage pain without medications, its developers say.