New optical tweezers trap specimens just a few nanometers wide
Could allow for studying individual proteins and unraveling them
How to focus light at the nanoscale
New light-focusing device may lead to radical improvements in hard drives, microscopes, and communications
IBM ‘silicon nanophotonics’ breakthrough integrates optical and electrical circuits
Light pulses can move data at blazing speeds to help solve bandwidth limitations of servers, datacenters and supercomputers
When the first stars blinked on
The very first stars may have turned on when the universe was 750 million years old
Seeing in color at the nanoscale
Berkeley Lab scientists develop a new nanotech tool to probe solar-energy conversion