Mar 04, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Researchers have developed a new way to control and manipulate optical signals by embedding a liquid crystal layer into waveguides...

The first direct observation of water on the surface of an asteroid has been made using an airborne near-infrared telescope. Water was detected on...

Feb 27, 2024 (Nanowerk News) The sunlight received by Earth is a mixed bag of wavelengths ranging from ultraviolet to visible to infrared. Each wavelength...

In 1924 an Indian physicist called Satyendra Nath Bose wrote to Albert Einstein saying he had solved a problem in quantum physics that had...

Feb 22, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Supernovae are the spectacular end result of the collapse of stars more massive than 8-10 times the mass of the...

Physics World Reports on the Flexibility and Ultrathin Properties of Optical Sensors Enabled by Carbon Nanotubes Carbon nanotubes, with their exceptional properties, have been revolutionizing...

News: Optoelectronics 16 February 2024 BluGlass Ltd of Silverwater, Australia — which develops and manufactures gallium nitride (GaN) blue laser diodes based...

TITUSVILLE, Fla. — NASA has selected an ultraviolet observatory for development but will delay its launch by two years because of budget challenges. NASA announced...

IntroductionUnlike many astronomers, Erin Kara didn’t grow up star-struck. “I don’t have that story of being that little kid staring up at the stars...

In working on soilhealth.app, I continue to wonder what sort of visualizations of energy flow and change over time might be useful to producers. Some...

While the odds of being struck by lightning is about one in a million, a direct hit can be fatal, especially to the head....

IntroductionWhen it comes to understanding the fabric of the universe, most of what scientists think exists is consigned to a dark, murky domain. Ordinary...