Researchers at Microsoft and the University of Southampton create fibres that cut signal loss, boost bandwidth and promise ...

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are a special class of resonant states. Although they have the same momentum and energy as the propagating modes in free space, yet they are not coupled to the ...

Last week, rather than fretting over busy schedules and overwhelming classes, my best friends and I spent Sunday night in Randolph, New Hampshire, preparing for the totality of Monday’s solar eclipse.

Compared to through-hole construction, inspecting SMD construction is a whole other game. Things you thought were small before are almost invisible now, and making sure solder got where it’s supposed ...

Attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared (ATR-FTIR) spectroscopy is an excellent tool for analyzing biofluids. A biological fingerprint can be extracted from the sample as an IR spectrum ...

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