By shining infrared light on specially designed, gold-filled silicon wafers, scientists at The Methodist Hospital Research Institute have successfully targeted and burned breast cancer cells. If the technology is shown to work in human clinical trials, it could...
A new rare-earth-ion-doped optical amplifier has performance comparable to semiconductor amplifiers.
An ambitious theoretical investigation into the properties of cuprous oxide suggests it possesses remarkable non-linear optical (NLO) properties.
Whatever happened to curiosity-driven research aimed at the creation of fundamental knowledge without the need for immediate application?
Professor Geoffrey Ozin discusses the safe and responsible development, production, use, transportation, and disposal of nanoparticles in existing or emerging nanotechnologies.
Professor Geoffrey Ozin brags about nanoparticles and the interesting things they can accomplish in Bragg mirrors.
Surface patterning using conjugated polymers is set to take off, according to a review by Chinese scientists.
The self-assembly of block polymers raises this question, discussed in the latest Trend Article in Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics.
So what is next for nanochemical and biochemical sensor research? Shouldn’t we be trying to find the next glass pH electrode, rather than trying to squeeze that extra fraction of a percent out of our tried and tested materials?
ZnSe is deposited in silica pores to produce the first compound semiconductor optical fiber waveguides.
New theory suggests gravity is not a fundamental force
French WEST reactor breaks record in nuclear fusion
Quantum entanglement visualized for the first time ever
Higgs boson may be driving the Universe’s expansion
An anti-inflammatory peptide may hold the key to low-back pain relief
Could a nuclear explosion set Earth’s atmosphere on fire?
“Cosmic vine” discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope
Black hole images deliver a deathblow to alternative theory of gravity
The Road to Better Presentation of Data: The Do’s and Don’ts
The dramatic story behind general relativity’s Nobel Prize snub