Vision is a cornerstone of daily life; perfect vision is one of life’s great pleasures. Beyond forty five years of age, most people cope with visual disability of one form or another….
Physicists stop and store light traveling in an optical fiber
Researchers at the Kastler Brossel Laboratory in Paris have showed that a cloud of cold atoms surrounding an ultrathin fiber can store light propagating along the fiber. The technique makes use of…
Bladeless Wind Turbine is being developed by a Spanish Start-Up
A Spanish tech start-up company called Vortex Bladeless is developing a new kind of Wind Turbine without any blades. It wants to completely change the way we get energy from the wind. Think…
Researchers found a way to make 3D printing looks photo real
Researchers at Zhejiang University and Columbia University have found a way to precisely affix complex coloring to objects, making them look somewhat photo-real. They presented a new computational hydrographic printing method that…
The Planetary Society plans the LightSail Spacecraft test launch on May 20
LightSail is a solar sail project developed by The Planetary Society, a global non-profit organization devoted to space exploration. Bill Nye, CEO of The Planetary Society has launched a Kickstarter campaign for LightSail Spacecraft….