AT&T Reportedly To Cut Hundreds of US Tech Jobs
Sep. 29, 2006
A week after AT&T announced it would end outsourcing of customer service to offshore providers,...
New Lithography Method Creates Molecule-Sized Images
Sep. 29, 2006
Ever since the invention of the first scanning probe microscope in 1981, researchers have believed...
LED Market, Technology Focus of Conference
Sep. 28, 2006
The seventh annual international conference and exhibition Light Emitting Diodes 2006 will feature...
Laser Method Unveils Ultrafast Photochemical Reactions
Sep. 28, 2006
Researchers have made a fundamental advance in understanding how different environments affect...
Andor Camera Helps Astronomers Find Planets
Sep. 28, 2006
Digital camera maker Andor Technology has played a central role in some exciting new discoveries in...
Intel Develops Terascale Research Chips
Sep. 28, 2006
Intel Corp. unveiled details this week of its terascale research prototype silicon, including the...
Former Apple Execs Buy Wafer Foundry for $260M
Sep. 27, 2006
Apple Computer Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak and two other former Apple executives have acquired...
Laser Provides New Insight into Human Brain
Sep. 26, 2006
In a finding that may offer clues about Parkinson's disease, a team of researchers used a...
Image Fusion 2007 Summit to Explore Defense Technologies
Sep. 26, 2006
Image Fusion 2007 will examine how the military and industry are evolving their operations and...
Quantum Encryption Codes Sent Over Record Distances
Sep. 26, 2006
Using an innovative sensor for detecting single photons, the smallest particles of light,...
3-D Scan Illuminates Mona Lisa
Sep. 26, 2006
The most important scientific study ever done of Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of the Mona Lisa has...
Molecules Take Step Toward Use as Quantum Bits
Sep. 25, 2006
By creating an optical lattice out of several superimposed laser beams, physicists have succeeded...
Hot Flies Produce Cool Results
Sep. 25, 2006
Using multiphoton fluorescence microscopy, researchers have for the first time watched chromosomes...
Survey Finds Weirdest Type-Ia Supernova Yet
Sep. 22, 2006
Startling evidence that there is more than one kind of Type Ia supernova -- a class of exploding...
Mouse Colon Closeup Eclipses Competition
Sep. 22, 2006
Paul Appleton, a researcher from the Division of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University...
Essex to Acquire Adaptive Optics for $40M
Sep. 20, 2006
Essex Corp., a provider of advanced signal, image, information processing, information assurance...
Artificial Cornea is in Sight
Sep. 20, 2006
A novel biomimetic material -- a hydrogel or polymer that holds a lot of water -- is finding its...
Scientists Seek to Tame Tricky Carbon Nanotubes
Sep. 19, 2006
Scientists are theorizing they may be able to manipulate carbon nanotubes -- one of the strongest...
2006 MacArthur Fellows Announced
Sep. 19, 2006
A deep-sea explorer and biologist who specializes in bioluminescence and a theoretical...
Hybrid Silicon Laser Chip That Emits, Guides Light Developed
Sep. 18, 2006
Researchers announced today that they have, for the first time, combined the light-emitting...
New 'Superlens' Reveals Hidden Nanostructures
Sep. 18, 2006
In a development that could enhance near-field microscopy, a 'superlens' made of a thin film of...
Double Qdots Control Kondo Effect
Sep. 15, 2006
Two quantum dots connected by wires could help scientists better control the Kondo effect in...
Sugar-Cube-Sized Video Projector Created
Sep. 15, 2006
Researchers have overcome traditional obstacles and created a video projector no larger than a...
New Technology, Products on Display at Optics East 2006
Sep. 14, 2006
Optics East 2006, the only comprehensive optics event on the East Coast, will host the researchers...
Near-IR Imaging Could Help Detect, Treat Breast Cancer
Sep. 14, 2006
A near-infrared imaging technique being developed could have a significant impact on the way...
Alis Acquired by Carl Zeiss SMT
Sep. 14, 2006
Carl Zeiss SMT AG this week closed its acquisition of Peabody, Mass.-based Alis Corp., a...
Laser's Particle Analog Demonstrated
Sep. 13, 2006
Particle acceleration by stimulated emission of radiation (PASER), a sort of particle analog of the...
Intel Sells Optical Components Biz for $115M
Sep. 12, 2006
Intel Corp. announced yesterday it has sold its optical network components business to Cortina...
Organic Semiconductors Make Flexible Photovoltaics, LEDs
Sep. 12, 2006
A new type of organic semiconductor device which shows electroluminescence and acts as a...
Scientist Honored for 'Spintronic' Microchips
Sep. 12, 2006
A scientist who has shown that magnetic microchips can store hundreds of gigabytes of information...
Optofluidic Microscope Invented
Sep. 11, 2006
The old optical microscopes that everyone used in high school biology class may be a step closer to...
New Optics Firm Formed
Sep. 11, 2006
A new precision optics company has been formed by two industry vets, according to the Rochester...
Dynasil to Acquire EMF Corp.
Sep. 11, 2006
Dynasil Corp. of America announced it will acquire all the stock of Ithaca, N.Y.-based Evaporated...
UMaryland, NIST and NSA Create Joint Quantum Institute
Sep. 11, 2006
Officials from the University of Maryland, the Commerce Department’s National Institute of...
Bruker AXS Acquires Metals Analysis Company
Sep. 8, 2006
Bruker AXS GmbH today announced that it has acquired privately-held Quantron GmbH from its...
Cheap, Quiet, Portable MRI Successfully Tested
Sep. 8, 2006
The term MRI often conjures up images of a huge, heavy, doughnut-shaped machine in a hospital's...
Plastic, Crystal-Based Solar Cells Being Developed
Sep. 7, 2006
A University of Queensland researcher is developing ways to make the next generation of solar cells...
Genetix to Acquire Applied Imaging for $18M
Sep. 7, 2006
Applied Imaging Corp., a supplier of automated imaging and image analysis systems, announced that...
BAE Systems To Buy National Sensor For $8.7M
Sep. 7, 2006
Defense and aerospace company BAE Systems Inc. announced today it will buy National Sensor Systems...
Minister Announces £7M West Midlands Technology Boost
Sep. 7, 2006
British government Industry and Regions Minister Margaret Hodge today announced a multimillion...
Engineers Unveil Plasmonic Laser Antenna
Sep. 6, 2006
Engineers and applied scientists have demonstrated a new photonic device with a wide range of...
Gold Nanoparticles Prove to be Hot Stuff
Sep. 6, 2006
Gold nanoparticles are highly efficient and sensitive handles for biological molecules being...
Biological Switch Created from Spinach Molecule
Sep. 6, 2006
Scientists have transformed a spinach molecule of chlorophyll-a into a complex biological switch...
'Strange Quark' Reveals Its Secrets
Sep. 5, 2006
An international group of physicists has been able to uncover information about one of the...
PerkinElmer Acquires Avalon Instruments
Sep. 5, 2006
PerkinElmer Inc., a health sciences and photonics business, today announced the acquisition of...
NeoPhotonics Buys BeamExpress
Sep. 5, 2006
NeoPhotonics, a global supplier of fiber-optic component and module solutions for long haul, metro...
Flextronics to Acquire LCD Maker IDW
Sep. 5, 2006
Electronics manufacturing services provider Flextronics International Ltd. of Singapore will...
Single-Molecule Transistors Created
Sep. 1, 2006
By taking a single molecule and attaching three electrical leads for current flow, physicists have...
Genetix to Acquire Applied Imaging for $18M
Sep. 1, 2006
Applied Imaging Corp. of San Jose, a supplier of automated imaging and image analysis systems,...