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A Video Introduction to Nanophotonics
Have you ever heard of Nanophotonics? It's also called nano-optics -- things like laser communication, optimizing solar cells and how much they can generate,...
Laser Powered Broadband? In Space? Wait. What?
Ok, there is something very interesting taking place with NASA this month. On September 23, NASA decided to approve three projects that are being...
Crazy Friday Science: Mini-Interview with Sonja Franke-Arnold on Rotary Photon Drag
I wrote an article about a paper I read in the journal Science a few weeks ago - the article was about Rotary Photon...
Rotary Photon Drag Enhanced by a Slow-Light Medium. Right? Right.
Remember that scene in the Jody Foster movie called Contact when they got all of those drawings of "the machine?" There was a part...
We Can’t Contain Our Big Killer Lasers
In a bit of irony in the world, an article was published recently stating that laser weaponry research has begun to see a bit...
Amyloidosis Gets Illuminated By X-Rays
Any Dr. House fans out there? I am totally raising my hand.
If you watch the medical shows, you might hear Dr. House or Foreman...
A Solar Retina
Check out this little video on Professor Andrew Barron at Rice University's artificial retina project that turned into a solar cell. Here's the video...
Bacteria Can Grow Wires to Communicate?! RUN!
Don't worry, it's not like Night of the Replicating Bacteria By Means of Nucleic Fax Transmission or anything - at least not yet. Scientists...
Light Activation Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease
A team of optogeneticists in California have discovered a technique that activates brain cells with flashes of light. Using these photoreactive proteins called channelrhodopsins,...
Ah, How The E. Coli Glows Under UV Light
On the medical side of light for a change - up in Houghton, Michigan, scientists at Michigan Technical University have developed a way to...
