In a lab at Osaka University, physicist Yoshiki Nakata and his colleagues fired a pulsed laser through a stack of three passive optical components and watched it shatter into 3,070 tiny, spinning ...

Light waves have a similar role in lidar to that of radio waves in radar: a lidar sensor sends out and receives information encoded in light pulses, and the system uses this information to make a map ...

Researchers have developed a novel material using tiny organic crystals that convert light into a substantial mechanical force able to lift 1,000 times its own mass. Without the need for heat or ...

The latest research in ACS Applied Energy Materials has shown that vertically aligned silicon nanowire (VA-SiNW) arrays are capable of massively increasing light absorption and causing a significant ...

Light enters a two-dimensional ring-resonator array from the lower left and exits at the lower right. Light that follows the edge of the array (blue) does not suffer energy loss and exits after a ...

Optogenetics, the technique in which light is used to either stimulate neurons to fire or prevent them from doing so, has had a dramatic impact in studies of the brain and behavior, but delivering ...

A special feature in this week's issue of the journal Science highlights protein array technology, touching on research conducted by Joshua LaBaer, director of the Biodesign Institute's Virginia G.