Researchers leverage the versatility of liquid crystals to enable the dynamic modulation of a nonlinear platform.

The rapid proliferation of realistic AI-generated content has created an urgent need for reliable and robust deepfake ...

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognizes work at the crossroads of biology, genetics and optics and photonics. Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel [Images, left to right: ...

One way to get around these problems is to realize heterogeneous integration: combining two different materials on the same ...

UK-based startup Singular Photonics has launched a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) image sensor that combines photon ...

Lightera spun off from Furukawa Electric Group in April 2025, after Furukawa began integrating its global fiber and cable ...

Last year, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, manipulated the human eye to see a new color, which they called “olo” (see “A New Color Comes into View,” OPN, May 2025). Now, ...

Researchers at Kobe University in Japan have created a nanostructured coating that creates vivid, glossy colors on complex 3D surfaces (Small Struct., doi: 10.1002/sstr.70600). Designed for real-world ...

Mountaineers, climate scientists and polar explorers all worry about hidden crevasses that can destabilize glaciers and ice shelves. Researchers in Switzerland, a country with plenty of snow and ice, ...

Researchers in China have engineered a lightweight receiver that can be fitted to a drone to convert laser light into usable power (Matter & Light, doi: 10.1016/j.matlit.2026.100066). With a ...

Mental health has long been a concern for early-career researchers, broadly defined as Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows, but the reach and severity of this problem have remained unclear. A new ...

Many patients wonder if the X-rays ordered by their physicians will subject them to radiation overdoses. In the future, those medical images could require a lot less radiation. Scientists in China ...