Since the time of Thomas Edison, incandescent light bulbs have been the dominant light source for illumination. Today, incandescent bulbs still hold...
World’s Tiniest Nanophotonic Switch Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 - Anuradha Menon Scientists at IBM, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., have taken another major step towards sending information inside a computer chip...
Why Are Things Colored? Friday, June 20th, 2008 - Noa Rotkop Why are things colored? Scholars have learned that all the colors in the universe originate from a mere fifteen fundamental...
Black Hole Sheds Light on a Galaxy Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 - Ehud Rattner An international team has observed the light echo of an enormous X-ray flare, which was apparently produced when a single...
LED Light Bulbs to Take Over? Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 - Sarah Gingichashvili The U.S. based “Lighting Science Group (LSG)” has announced the launch of its new line of LED light bulbs. The new product...