Scientists have developed an ingenious method to create and control ultra-confined light waves, a significant step towards realizing tiny optical circuits. This method works in two steps, ...

They distribute data and can separate cells from one other. But can they adequately light a room? Photos: Fiber optics lighting the way Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he ...

Imagine a home computer operating 1 million times faster than the most expensive hardware on the market. Now, imagine that being the industry standard. Physicists hope to pave the way for that reality ...

Increasingly complex applications such as artificial intelligence require ever more powerful and power-hungry computers to run. Optical computing is a proposed solution to increase speed and power ...

A research team has developed a new way to measure and predict how plant leaves scatter and reflect light, revealing that ...

In a discovery that blurs the line between biology and technology, scientists have found that heart-shaped clams use fiber optic–like structures to channel sunlight through their shells in much the ...

Carbon nanotubes are cylindrical nanostructures made by rolling up sheets of graphene. Graphene sheets are only a single atom thick and this gives this form of carbon many special properties. For ...

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

A new method predicts leaf optical properties from traits, improving canopy light modeling and photosynthesis estimates in ...