Oxford Instruments’ Raman imaging team has announced a new core microscope line and a spectrometer called Hexalight. Together, the witec360 microscope and Hexalight spectrometer constitute an advanced ...

Growing III-V nano-ridge lasers directly on silicon sidesteps the complexities of existing integration methods and paves the way for scalable, cost-efficient photonic integrated circuit production.

Stimulation of the A13 brain region restores motor function in Parkinson's disease mouse models by alleviating bradykinesia and akinesia.

Not every wonderful breakthrough in science and technology was created intentionally. A chance discovery or invention is an unexpected realization and insight that occurs without direct intention.

Nikon has revealed the winners of the 15th annual Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition. The contest recognizes the most dynamic microscopic movies or digital time-lapse photography each year.

Understanding what happens inside a material when it is hit by ultrashort light pulses is one of the great challenges of ...

A research team led by the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, or CNSI, demonstrated a new type of light-emitting ...

Rice researchers used a focused electron beam to pattern device functions with submicron precision directly into an ultrathin ...

A novel class of light-sensitive nanoparticles may one day enable new approaches to medical imaging. They were developed by a research team at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). The ...

Scientists at Rice University have demonstrated a way to “write” light sources and nanoscale wiring directly onto crystals ...

Gears have powered the world for millennia, from clock machines to car engines. But miniaturizing them to microscopic dimensions has stumped engineers for decades. Anything under one-tenth of a ...