Researchers present a novel ion-trap chip integrating photonics for efficient fluorescence photon collection, enhancing quantum information processing.

John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same principles to fashion an even ...

Jordan Roach uses a Raman microscope to examine a sample of U3O8 affixed to carbon tape on an aluminum stub. Roach uses Raman ...

For a long time, it was thought that this [technique] required telescopes in space,” says John Mather, the Nobel ...

An instrument that uses high-energy electrons to take "snapshots" of ultrafast chemical processes at the atomic and molecular ...

Semiconductor lithography is the most important technology in support of the modern world, forming the basis of manufacturing ...

The direction in which the electromagnetic field of circularly polarized light rotates can be easily reversed by applying a ...

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have measured “dark points” inside light waves that appear to ...

For more than 20 years, astronomers have been puzzled by a striking pattern of bright, evenly spaced stripes in the radio waves coming from the Crab ...

For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by strange “zebra stripe” patterns in radio waves from the Crab Pulsar — bright bands separated by complete darkness. Now, new research suggests the answer ...

A team of NASA researchers is developing new types of optical masks that could help enable the many orders of magnitude of starlight suppression needed for future space observatories to pick out very ...

Researchers have developed a holographic data storage approach that stores and retrieves information in three dimensions by ...