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‘Darkfield’ Lasers Let Mice Track on Glass
Monday, November 2nd, 2009 - Ehud Rattner
Logitech has recently introduced a new technology that allows optical PC mice to operate on glass. This feature can solve...

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Flies Get Fright from False Memories

Friday, October 16th, 2009 - 13:54:43 - Ehud Rattner

The seemingly complex phenomenon by which fruit flies (Drosophila) learn from bad experiences has been reduced to the actions of a mere 12 neurons...

Building the World's Most Powerful Laser

Thursday, October 15th, 2009 - 09:33:47 - Anuradha Menon

Researchers at the National Ignition Facility demonstrated a 1.1 megajoule laser designed to ignite nuclear fusion reactions by 2010. But the...

Laser Cooling May Create 'Exotic' States

Thursday, September 10th, 2009 - 10:17:54 - Anuradha Menon

Laser beams are best known as weapons in science fiction and as heating and cutting tools in science fact. But a new study has flip-flopped...

World's Smallest Laser Unveiled

Monday, August 17th, 2009 - 19:34:20 - Ehud Rattner

The world's smallest laser, contained in a silica sphere just 44 nanometers across, has been unveiled. At about 10 times smaller than the wavelength...

Acoustic Maps to Aid the Blind
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 - Janice Karin
Researchers at the University of Bristol in England have developed a new method to convert images from lasers and digital...

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Fiber Lasers for Extreme Photons

Thursday, July 30th, 2009 - 14:27:15 - Anuradha Menon

The light sources powering the next-generation chipmaking technique, extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL), are too dim, according to industry...

Transparent Aluminium is New State of Matter

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 - 18:42:03 - Anuradha Menon

Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. ‘Transparent...

3D X-Ray Images Get Closer to Reality
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 - Janice Karin
Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and several Russian colleagues have made significant strides toward...