Researchers in China have published details of a new holmium-doped laser emitting at a wavelength close to 2 µm that they claim could pave the way to a new class of compact and c ...

The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will take stock of water’s cosmic origins by scanning the galaxy for hidden reservoirs.

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Photos of colorless, phantom-like rainbows mysteriously shining over the Texas Gulf Coast have been recently circulating on ...

Shaking up Raman-based sensing could add speed and reduce costs for a bioprocessor, and that’s just what they need.

Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Revolutionary technique allows astronomers to capture incredibly high-resolution images of distant galaxies and supermassive black holes.

Sixth-generation, or 6G, cellular networks are the next step in wireless communication, and electromagnetic terahertz waves are seen as crucial to its development. However, terahertz waves, with their ...

That is because the variations can mimic or obscure the signature of water vapor in the pattern of light at different wavelengths that reaches our telescopes." For the study, researchers used 20 ...

Momentum is building for organic interposers, 3D stacking, and photonics, but questions remain about how the industry gets there and what kinds of tradeoffs will be necessary.