Optical Technique Enhances Aerosol Studies
WASHINGTON -- Understanding the nature of aerosols is vital to designing better nebulizers for...
Bow Ties May Make Good Sensors
TUCSON, Ariz. -- In the future, bow ties may be more than a fashion accessory for political pundits...
LEDs May Yield Chemical Sensors
MADISON, Wis. -- A class of devices based on LEDs promises to enable the development of...
Corals Wear Fluorescent Sunscreen
SYDNEY, Australia -- It may not be Coppertone, but it works. Scientists from the University of...
Photonic Crystal Displays Trirefringence
Scientists have been familiar with the phenomenon of birefringence ever since Christian Huygens...
Squares May Resolve Exosolar Planets
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- With one exception, astronomers have observed all of the known exosolar planets...
Infrared Camera Exposes Reef Building
MONACO -- Marine scientist John R.M. Chisholm was scratching his head over this one. The coral in...
Fuzzy Logic Boosts Laser Performance
A team of researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has demonstrated that lasers...
Spectroscopy Offers Hope in Land-Mine Detection
NORWOOD, Mass. -- From Bosnia to Angola to North Korea, the threat to civilians of injury or death...
Fast Ignition Proposed for Inertial Confinement Fusion
Two groups have independently reported fast-ignition techniques for inertial confinement fusion,...
Lighter Lidar Takes to the Sky
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- Satellite pictures of the ocean surface offer insight into the levels of...
Researchers Probe 'Light Bullets'
A team at the University of Technology Chemnitz in Chemnitz, Germany, has presented the results of...
Oil Damages Los Alamos Laser Lab
Officials at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M., estimated that an oil spill at the...
Shadow Moire Hits the Streets
Sidney Guralnick, a professor of civil engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago,...
Slow-Motion Movies Aid Engineers
MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Understanding how high-frequency vibrations behave is important to the...
Silver Nanoclusters Store Data
ATLANTA -- Every data cloud may someday have a silver lining. Researchers have demonstrated that...
NASA Tests Quantum Cascade Sensor
The results of NASA flight tests have verified the suitability of mid-infrared quantum cascade...
Evanescent Waves Probe Gas-Solid Interface
A spectroscopic technique developed by a group from Odense Universitet in Denmark, Max Planck...
Fiber Probes Engine Oil
MADISON, Wis. -- A new sensor that combines the signals from two probes may enable mechanical...
Lasers Tackle Radioactive Concrete
ARGONNE, Ill. -- What do you do when you have terminated nuclear power, research and weapons...
Lasers Keep Runways Safe
A laser illumination system developed by Greatland Laser LLC of Anchorage, Alaska, promises to...
Lasers Could Simplify Drilling for Oil
DES PLAINES, Ill. -- On the heels of a successful two-year study of the potential of military...
Is Space a Dispersive Medium?
According to string theory, perhaps the top contender in the struggle to create a quantum theory of...
Third-Harmonic Excitation Improves Resolution
BERKELEY, Calif. -- When researchers at the University of California teamed a near-infrared laser...
Vertical-Cavity Structure Offers Amplification
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Vertical-cavity semiconductor optical amplifiers have promised enhanced...