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New ultra-thin night vision filters could one day turn regular glasses into night-vision devices.
Energy from matter was always easy, but the reverse has been difficult to achieve -- until now.
Spacecraft pushed by photons might someday take us to other stars.
The number of photons emitted into space is 4 followed by 84 zeroes. Now, that a moment to wrap that figure around your head.
"It's very uncharted territory," the researchers explained.
It makes less of a racket though.
Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with colleagues in Taiwan and China, have developed what’s considered to be the world’s smallest laser; a device so tiny, that it’s invisible to the naked eye. The laser is heralded as a breakthrough in the emerging photonic technology with applications from computing to medicine. […]
This time last year, the whole scientific community was faced with one of the most controversial findings in recent history – namely, that neutrinos could travel at a speed greater than the speed of light, fact which would directly contravene with Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity and, in consequence, force scientists to rethink the fundamental laws that […]
Scientists have described and proven how many of the world’s phenomenae function, from the very fundamental laws of Newtonian mechanics, to the discrete behaviors of quantum physics, eventually peering through some of the Universe’s most well kept secrets. It’s remarkable then, how little we know about how heat is conducted through and between materials. A better […]
