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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

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Silver nanocubes make super-light-absorbers

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

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