Crystals Key to Cloaking
Jun. 30, 2008
Concentric rings of silicon photonic crystals have, in computer simulations, demonstrated an...
Arrested Rainbow
Jun. 30, 2008
Working on the nanoscale, researchers at Lehigh University, have found a way to control the rate at...
Agilent Buys Nano Instruments
Jun. 30, 2008
Measurement company Agilent Technologies Inc. announced today it has acquired the Nano Instruments...
StockerYale Begins Takeover
Jun. 27, 2008
With Virtek Vision International Inc.'s largest shareholder on its side, StockerYale Inc. today...
Photodiodes Spy Anthrax
Jun. 27, 2008
Thanks to a group of researchers at Georgia Tech, the U.S. military’s pressing requirements for...
Hybrid Atom Identified
Jun. 27, 2008
Experiments with nanoscale transistors by an international team have led to the identification of a...
Orbotech Buying Calif. Firm
Jun. 26, 2008
Israel-based Orbotech Ltd. will acquire Photon Dynamics of San Jose, a maker of test and repair...
Fiber Optics in Fashion
Jun. 26, 2008
With 15,000 individually addressable optical fibers totaling more than 40 miles in combined length,...
Make Like a Plant
Jun. 25, 2008
Guess you could say that researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have...
Laser Microscalpel Created
Jun. 25, 2008
Femtosecond lasers have just become more accurate and versatile, thanks to Adela Ben-Yakar,...
Solar Research Tops Agenda
Jun. 24, 2008
The latest research, technologies and applications in solar and alternative energies,...
First Excitonic ICs Built
Jun. 24, 2008
Physicists have assembled the first integrated circuits (ICs) that use excitons -- particles that...
Patterns Classify Cancer
Jun. 23, 2008
Long has “nature versus nurture” been a convenient catchphrase to describe what determines or...
Credence, LTX to Merge
Jun. 23, 2008
Chip testing equipment makers Credence Systems Corp. and LTX Corp. will merge in an all-stock...
Lighting Up Life on Mars
Jun. 23, 2008
A method to identify organic matter in soils with ultraviolet (UV) light could be used to document...
'Clutch' Stops Flagella
Jun. 23, 2008
The flagellum -- a rotating, tail-like structure that makes a bacterium swim, is powered by a...
Micromagnets for MRIs
Jun. 20, 2008
MRIs are coming to you live and in color. Thanks to tiny magnets that could one day be injected...
Light Creates Tiny Patterns
Jun. 20, 2008
The old trick, practiced by schoolboys everywhere, of concentrating a beam of sunlight through a...
UIowa to Assess Lab Damage
Jun. 18, 2008
It will be months before the full extent of flood damage sustained by the Iowa Advanced Technology...
A Worm of a Different Color
Jun. 17, 2008
A mutant worm changes color when it moves as the result of an optical sensor called stFRET. The...
Mass. Biotech Bill Signed
Jun. 17, 2008
A $1 billion, 10-year plan to boost Massachusetts' position in the life sciences was signed by Gov....
Tangible Music Interface
Jun. 17, 2008
No strings attached. Actually, no buttons, no switches and no keys either. A musical instrument...
Light 'Cooks' Cancer Cells
Jun. 17, 2008
A new way to kill cancer cells has been found by attaching cancer-seeking antibodies to tiny carbon...
A Controllable Camera Pill
Jun. 16, 2008
Pills containing tiny cameras pass through the esophagus in as little three seconds, not long...
StockerYale Talks Takeover
Jun. 16, 2008
Despite Virtek Vision International Inc.'s rejection of its $22 million buyout offer, StockerYale...
Sandstone to Stop Imports
Jun. 16, 2008
A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning has prompted, in part, a small Alabama laser...
Listening to Black Holes
Jun. 16, 2008
Can you hear black holes collide? That question, among others, will be explored at the Royal...
Sony & Cognex Join Forces
Jun. 13, 2008
At this year’s Vision Show East, Sony Electronics announced that Cognex will certify its...
Seeing is Believing
Jun. 13, 2008
Claiming its biggest show in 10 years, the 2008 Vision Show East entertained an enthusiastic crowd...
Quantum Images Easily Made
Jun. 13, 2008
A simple and flexible method for creating twin light beams has been used to produce quantum images,...
Tiny Blinds Bend Beams
Jun. 13, 2008
A new way of bending x-ray beams could lead to greatly improved space telescopes, as well as new...
NRC Probes Cracked Vial
Jun. 12, 2008
The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is investigating a reported incident in which a cracked vial...
Plasma Propels 'Flying Saucer'
Jun. 12, 2008
A patent application submitted for a wingless, circular, spinning aircraft design could make...
Hologic Acquiring Third Wave
Jun. 11, 2008
Medical imaging systems maker Hologic Inc. announced it will acquire Third Wave Technologies Inc....
ACT Will Ban Laser Pointers
Jun. 11, 2008
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government will ban high-powered laser pointers under the...
Genzel Wins $1M Shaw Prize
Jun. 11, 2008
The leader of an international team that showed the Milky Way galaxy has a supermassive black hole...
Conjuring Robert Koch
Jun. 10, 2008
Today, one in three persons is infected with the tuberculosis pathogen, and the World Heath...
MEMS Muscle Awarded
Jun. 10, 2008
A mechanical micromuscle with nanoscopic movements and a microcreep-and-stress tester, both...
“Bow Tie” Enhances EUV
Jun. 9, 2008
According to KAIST reseachers in Korea, a bow tie-shaped gold nanostructure on a saphire substrate...
Sizing Up Graphene
Jun. 9, 2008
The extraordinary properties of graphene have reportedly been measured with an accuracy never...
Infrared Galactic Portrait
Jun. 6, 2008
It’s the Milky Way like you’ve never seen it before – in infrared.
Thanks to the...
Sensors Supply Power
Jun. 6, 2008
A miniature conveyor system that uses wireless sensors with their own power supply could provide a...
Photline and AdLightec Merge
Jun. 6, 2008
Photline Technologies, a supplier of optical modulation products, announced it has merged with...
Room-Temperature SCs?
Jun. 5, 2008
Newly discovered iron-based high-temperature superconductors could pave the way for the development...
Solid-State Laser Milestone
Jun. 5, 2008
Boeing has just set a record – the company’s new thin-disk laser system has achieved the highest...
Moon Mirrors Imagined
Jun. 5, 2008
An innovative recipe for giant telescope mirrors on the moon has been concocted by scientists...
TEGs Could Cool Gas Use
Jun. 5, 2008
Thermoelectric materials, modules and systems to harness the residual heat in automobiles and...
Partnership for Live-cell Research
Jun. 4, 2008
Nikon Instruments and Northwestern University are opening a collaborative core microscopy imaging...
Lasers Make Nanostructures
Jun. 3, 2008
A single laser pulse can reportedly create complex, ordered nanostructure systems, a previously...
Moving EUVL From Lab to Fab
Jun. 3, 2008
More than 100 leading lithographers will meet in Maui next week to begin developing a plan to speed...
Thermo Buys Chemito Tech
Jun. 3, 2008
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced Monday it has acquired the Analytical Technologies and...
Material Superabsorbs Light
Jun. 3, 2008
A metamaterial has been engineered that is capable of absorbing essentially all of the light that...
Cell Invasion on Agenda
Jun. 3, 2008
The cellular aspects of infection, including cell invasion and host-pathogen interactions, will be...
Firefly Gene Lights Cells
Jun. 2, 2008
The gene that allows fireflies to flash is helping researchers track the effectiveness of...
Flip-Spin Flop Yields Tool
Jun. 2, 2008
An attempt to flip the spin of electrons using ultrafast laser bursts may have failed, but in the...