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Splitting Water and Producing Hydrogen from Solar Cells

News - 17 Feb 2008

Plants trees and algae do it. Even some bacteria and moss do it, but scientists have had a difficult time developing methods to turn sunlight into useful fuel. Now, Penn State researchers have a...

Designing Next Generation Space Telescopes

News - 16 Feb 2008

Two astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., Dr. Marc Postman and Dr. Ken Sembach, have been selected among 19 science teams to conduct year-long studies of new...

Laser Sets a World Record

News - 16 Feb 2008

If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of a new laser beam made...

Using Thermal Analysis on Optical Reference Cavities

Article - 27 Mar 2020

Scientists at the University of Shanghai published a paper demonstrating how they used thermal analysis to indicate how to create optical reference cavities.

First Steps in the Cosmic Distance Ladder

News - 11 Feb 2008

Taking advantage of the presence of light echoes, a team of astronomers have used an ESO telescope to measure, at the 1% precision level, the distance of a Cepheid - a class of variable stars that...

Scientists Turns Pure Aluminum Gold, Blue and Gray

News - 1 Feb 2008

Using a tabletop laser, University of Rochester optical scientists have turned pure aluminum, gold. And blue. And gray. And many other colors. And it works for every metal tested, including...

Using Music Chord to Examine Hydrogen Molecule Responds to Laser Pulses

News - 1 Feb 2008

For Kansas State University physics professor Uwe Thumm, confirmation of a theory about the behavior of small molecules became music to his ears -- literally. He and colleagues in Heidelberg, Germany,...

Next Generation Optical Fibres Many Times More Powerful

News - 17 Jan 2008

Scientists have discovered a way of speeding up the production of hollow-core optical fibres - a new generation of optical fibres that could lead to faster and more powerful computing and...

Complex 3D Integrated Circuits Involving Optical Element Now Easier to Make

News - 20 Dec 2007

Complex three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuits involving both optical and electronic elements are now easier to make, thanks to a “wafer bonding” technique developed by a European...

New Imaging Technique Provides Insight into Lung Cancer

News - 10 Dec 2007

Doctors at the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham are collaborating to use a magnetic resonance technique to image and quantify the air spaces inside the lungs. The results of their research may...