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Nearly a century ago, physicists Max Born and J. Robert Oppenheimer developed an assumption regarding how quantum mechanics plays out in molecules, which are comprised of intricate systems of nuclei and electrons. The Born-Oppenheimer…

A mother who was called a 'monster' for treating her five-month-old son's port wine birthmark with laser therapy has revealed he has reached a major health milestone.Brooke Atkins, from Gold Coast, shared a video of now 18-month-old …

Google parent Alphabet has already tried and failed to bring internet access to rural and remote areas by using high-altitude balloons in the stratosphere.But now, the company is delivering internet service to remote areas by using beams of…

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California : Google parent Alphabet has already tried and failed to bring internet access to rural and remote areas by using high-altitude balloons in the stratosphere.But now, the company is delivering internet service…

There are 73 Michelin-star restaurants in New York, but a Columbia University lab has something that even they can’t touch — a hands-free cheesecake. Mechanical engineers at Columbia’s Creative Machines Lab are looking to shake up the…

Giant frickin’ laser beams get all the buzz and sci-fi love, but it’s our little laser bros that are putting in the work: taking measurements, entertaining our cats, and now, in the case of a Sony camera, helping people with vision problems…

Ice-cold electron beams simulated in research at the University of Strathclyde could pave the way to reducing X-ray free-electron lasers (X-FELs) to a fraction of their current size. X-FELs convert the kinetic energy of an electron beam…

In principle, quantum-based devices such as computers and sensors could vastly outperform conventional digital technologies for carrying out many complex tasks. But developing such devices in practice has been a challenging problem despite…

The 'mirrors' exist for only a fragment of time but could help to reduce the size of ultra-high power lasers, which currently occupy buildings the size of aircraft hangars, to university basement sizes. They have potential to be developed…

As technologies keep advancing at exponential rates and demand for new devices rises accordingly, miniaturizing systems into chips has become increasingly important. Microelectronics has changed the way we manipulate electricity, enabling…