By using an ordinary green laser pointer, the kind commonly found in offices and college lecture halls, an Israeli research team has developed a new and highly portable Raman spectrometer th... Read more
Software could make it easier to see in difficult driving conditions A prototype headlight system can detect raindrops or snow streaks and “dis-illuminate” them, thereby increasi... Read more
“You’re able to do things with light that you can’t do with electricity,” Thankfully, data transmission speeds have come a long way since the days of dial-up when users would have plenty of... Read more
Spiralling radio waves could revolutionize telecommunications. The bandwidth available to mobile phones, digital television and other communication technologies could be expanded enormously... Read more