http://www.photonics.com/Splash.aspx?TID=43 This is the syndication feed for photonics.com. The future can be sly. We expect to wake up one day and suddenly have jetpacks and sentient robots trying to kill us. But as often as not the technolo http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53878 Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT I almost always regret reading the comments sections of online articles. The speed with which they devolve into vitriol and simple, unrestrained idioc http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53717 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT Imagine a world in which the academic paper is no longer the ultimate goal, the inviolable end product of science. It’s hard, isn’t i http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53584 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT The future, as they say, is now. Everything we know today was once just a possibility, a germ of an idea that might come to fruition months or years o http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53445 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT A friend handed me a business card for a holistic health & beauty practitioner. On the back of the card were an appointment reminder, a note about http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53391 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT Consider this for a moment: Dinosaurs might still be alive today if they had had a space program. If dinosaurs — Stegosauruses, Velocirapto http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53150 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Here’s what I learned last night about aphrodisiacs: While oysters, ginseng and rhinoceros horn have all been touted as the perfect means to aro http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=53041 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT Call it the law of unintended application: No matter one’s objective in developing a new technology, no matter how much the technology promises http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=52980 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMT In an age of Skype and FaceTime and the apparently imminent Google Glass, we embrace technologies that let us see whoever is on the other end of the l http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=52816 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT We seem to have survived the end of the world, though we can hardly say we’ve survived it unscathed. Even in the context of an already difficult http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=52653 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT In the original Star Wars movie Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Obi-Wan Kenobi begin to ask thought-provoking questions about the amount of energy neede http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=52591 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT The Atlantic City boardwalk was one of the first casualties of Sandy. Even before the hurricane made landfall in the US, images of the storied walkway http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=52452 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT If you spend any amount of time in the Twittersphere, you’ve probably seen at least one of the following:(1) surprisingly snarky and even subver http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=52368 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT There was, thankfully, one bit of good news last week: On Tuesday, Disney announced it had acquired Lucasfilm and was planning the 2015 release of Sta http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=52240 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT The site of the now-shuttered Camp Evans, in Wall Township, N.J., has played host to the Ku Klux Klan, former Nazi scientists and Senator Joseph McCar http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=52140 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT In my last post, I discussed the potential impact of a move toward open access in academic publishing — in particular, with respect to commercia http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=51972 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT You may have read about the impending demise of commercial academic publishers. These rumors of their death, it seems, are greatly exaggerated. I http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=51936 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT The modern age of x-ray vision kicked off in the 1930s, though maybe not where you think. The Lady With the X-Ray Eyes, an absurdist novel by Bul http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=51693 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT The implementation of whole-body scanners in airport security lines and news about the possibility of using smartphones to detect terahertz radiation http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=51614 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT If the National Center for Advancing Translational Science were a person with feelings and a fragile sense of self-worth, it might be feeling snubbed http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=51560 Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMT