Protein Yields Vivid Images
Aug. 30, 2007
A new red fluorescent protein derived from a brilliant red sea anemone purchased in a Moscow pet...
$30M AK Fiber Line Planned
Aug. 30, 2007
Officials with telecommunications provider GCI announced a plan this week to build a $30 million,...
Nanotubes Go Beyond Carbon
Aug. 29, 2007
A new class of metal oxide-based tubular nanomaterials that can be produced in water also offer a...
AmberWave, RIT Get NSF Grant
Aug. 29, 2007
AmberWave Systems Corp., a venture fund company for university research and development, and the...
Telescope on SPIE Agenda
Aug. 28, 2007
A set of algorithms and software programs have been designed to enable the 19 individual mirrors...
Cooper Buys 2 Lighting Firms
Aug. 28, 2007
Electrical products and tools manufacturer Cooper Industries Ltd. announced yesterday that it has...
Applied to Buy Edwards Unit
Aug. 28, 2007
Edwards Ltd. (formerly BOC Edwards), a Wilmington, Mass.-based supplier of vacuum equipment and...
Intense to Make ESA Arrays
Aug. 28, 2007
Semiconductor laser maker Intense Ltd. announced it has a new contract with the European Space...
Photon-Powered PCs Proposed
Aug. 27, 2007
A new theory uses nonlinear optics to create the photon transistors necessary to drive future...
IPG Awarded Navy Contract
Aug. 27, 2007
IPG Photonics Corp. announced it was awarded a $3.8 million contract from the US Navy to supply the...
NASA Craft Images Wildfires
Aug. 24, 2007
Wildfires can consume acres of dry brush and timber quickly, the intense heat and smoke making it...
Huge Hole Found in Universe
Aug. 24, 2007
Astronomers have found an enormous hole in the universe. Nearly a billion light-years across, it is...
Instant Detector Devised
Aug. 24, 2007
Commercializing a new type of detector that can instantly identify biochemical contaminants in...
DNA Controls Nanoparticles
Aug. 23, 2007
DNA, the molecule that carries life’s blueprint, is being used to control the size of nanoparticles...
Laser Light Pulsed on Silicon
Aug. 22, 2007
The first mode-locked silicon evanescent laser has been constructed, a significant step toward...
Catching Some Rays
Aug. 22, 2007
Fresh evidence that neutrinos oscillate (transform from one state to another) before arriving at...
WPI Awarded DHS Funds
Aug. 21, 2007
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has received nearly $1 million from the federal Department of...
Infineon Buying LSI Unit
Aug. 21, 2007
Chip maker LSI Corp. announced yesterday that it will sell its mobility products business to...
Multicolor STORM Images Cells
Aug. 21, 2007
A colorful new palette of fluorescent tags, when combined with superresolution advances, promise to...
Harris to Supply Raptor Fiber
Aug. 21, 2007
Harris Corp. has received a five-year, $30 million follow-on contract from Lockheed Martin to...
Nano-Engineer Group Formed
Aug. 21, 2007
Sandia National Laboratories has entered into a relationship with universities and industries...
Duo Claims Light Speed Broken
Aug. 20, 2007
German physicists are reporting they have broken the speed of light through quantum optics, but at...
Arizona Teams Win Grants
Aug. 20, 2007
Photonics and biophotonics collaborations in Arizona will receive grants totalling $10 million from...
Indian Army to Use Dazzlers
Aug. 17, 2007
India's army plans to add to its aresenal portable nonlethal laser "dazzlers" that could stun and...
'Alice' Going to the Moon
Aug. 17, 2007
Ocean Optics of Dunedin, Fla., has custom-engineered a spectrometer named Alice for an upcoming...
Nature's Versatile Hard Drive
Aug. 16, 2007
The blueprint of life -- DNA -- could be used to enhance technologies in electronics and...
Strange Star Trail Spotted
Aug. 16, 2007
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has spotted an amazingly long comet-like tail behind a star...
Solar, Nano Big at SPIE Show
Aug. 16, 2007
Solar energy and nanotechnology will be the main topics of numerous plenary sessions during the...
Paper Becomes Power Source
Aug. 15, 2007
By weaving black carbon nanotubes into paper, engineers have created printable, flexible batteries...
Land Imaging Plan Mapped
Aug. 15, 2007
A plan for a US National Land Imaging Program was released this week by the Bush administration to...
Detector Resists Radiation
Aug. 15, 2007
An imaging detector promises to revolutionize future NASA planetary missions with technology that...
Manz Captures $61M Order
Aug. 15, 2007
Manz Automation AG has received an order valued at 45 million euros (about $61 million) from...
1st Live Cell Imaged in 3-D
Aug. 14, 2007
A new imaging technique similar to the computed tomography (CT) scans doctors use to see inside the...
Grant Funds MEMS/NEMS Work
Aug. 13, 2007
A $1.25 million government grant will allow researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology to...
Elektron Acquires Sifam
Aug. 13, 2007
Elektron plc announced it acquired Sifam Instruments Ltd. for an initial cash payment of £2 million...
Agilent to Buy NetworkFab
Aug. 13, 2007
Agilent Technologies Inc. announced today it will acquire NetworkFab, a private defense contractor....
Molecular Heat Flow Measured
Aug. 10, 2007
A thermal measurement technique has been developed that can explore heat transport in extended...
Intune Raises $17.75M
Aug. 10, 2007
Intune Networks, a maker of optical switching products, announced it has raised $17.75 million from...
LoC System Promising
Aug. 9, 2007
A tiny device under development might in the future diagnose illness from a single drop of blood....
Summer of Laser Incidents
Aug. 9, 2007
What would summer be without fireworks, lightning bugs, meteor showers, barbecues ... or laser...
Elephant Seals Revealed
Aug. 9, 2007
Small sensors attached to 85 southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) to track their movements...
HP Refutes Printer Study
Aug. 8, 2007
Hewlett Packard (HP) is refuting a recent claim that its printers emit harmful levels of particles...
Sensors Detect Bridge Flaws
Aug. 7, 2007
The deadly collapse of an interstate bridge in Minneapolis, Minn., last week brought to light the...
MEMS Levitation Theorized
Aug. 7, 2007
Physicists in Scotland said they have discovered a new way of levitating tiny objects that could...
Wrinkles Measure Thin Films
Aug. 6, 2007
A simple new experiment yields important information about the mechanical properties of thin films...
Arasor Buying Alfalight, AOFR
Aug. 3, 2007
Arasor International Ltd. a developer of telecommunications and consumer optoelectronic products,...
Building PCBs in Reverse
Aug. 2, 2007
A Sunnyvale, Calif., company is building electronic assemblies in reverse, which it said promises...
System May Spot Silent Killer
Aug. 2, 2007
New optical technology shown to be effective in the early detection of colon cancer now appears...
Nanostructures Imaged in 3-D
Aug. 1, 2007
An optical technique more than a century old has helped solve a major problem with surface electron...
Bendy HFC Sensors Created
Aug. 1, 2007
Nanodevices have been fabricated to create bendy hydrogen sensors, which are at the heart of...
Original Apollo Images Online
Aug. 1, 2007
For the first time, the complete photographic record from NASA's Apollo moon missions is being made...
Pulses Shaped at Fs Frequency
Aug. 1, 2007
Engineers have finely controlled the spectral properties of ultrafast light pulses, a step toward...
Optics East to Stress Sensors
Aug. 1, 2007
Novel uses for sensors, advanced networking and related applications will be highlighted at SPIE's...