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If you are making an overseas phone call or using cloud computing, there is a 99 percent chance an undersea fiber optic cable is being utilized. Now, new work with lasers shows promise for squeezing more data through the...

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated a way to map and measure large-scale photonic quantum correlation with single-photon sensitivity. The ability to measure thousands of instances of quantum correlation is ...

The U.S. Large Hadron Collider Accelerator Upgrade Project is the Fermilab-led collaboration of U.S. laboratories that, in partnership with CERN and a dozen other countries, is working to upgrade the Large Hadron Collide...

A revolution in energy-efficient, environmentally-sound, and powerfully-flexible lighting is coming to businesses and homes, according to a paper in latest special energy issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (O...

Scientists at the University of Sydney have for the first time demonstrated improvement in quantum computers by using codes designed to detect and discard errors in the logic gates of such machines.

Researchers use nanotech to enhance vision in mice, enabling them to see infrared light as well as visible light.

Researchers report younger people are more likely to die from alcohol consumption, where as older people are more likely to see health benefits from moderate drinking.

A new study of the genetic data from over 94,000 people with Alzheimer's has identified five new risk genes, as well as confirmed 20 other known genes in the disease.

It seemed like a simple idea: shine a laser through a complex network of optical fibers and see what pathway(s) the beam of light preferred. But once he got started, Giovanni Giacomelli realized that his project had open...

Researchers suggest blind and sighted people experience visual phenomena differently, but share a common understanding of them.

A new study reveals that, on some health measures, yo-yo sleep schedules may be worse for you. Researchers report sleeping in on weekends can shift circadian rhythm, making it more difficult to fall asleep on Sunday nigh...

Searching for better security during data transmission, governments and other organizations around the world have been investing in and developing technologies related to quantum communication and related encryption meth...

Experimental photonic switches tested by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A., show promise toward the goal of fully optical, high-capacity switching for future high-speed data transmission netwo...

In August 2018, a baby boy was born in Tokyo weighing only 9.45 ounces (268 grams) -- about the weight of a bag of potato chips.

In the Amazon lowlands, spiders as big as dinner plates dine on opossums.

A new study suggests that marijuana's main active ingredient, THC may be more important for therapeutic effects.

Thanks to nanotechnology mice can now see in infrared light - and they can read and respond to infrared cues in their environment

A lack of sleep is a risk factor for diabetes and obesity - and if you think you can compensate with a weekend lie-in, you are out of luck

"LA république n'a pas besoin de savants ni de chimistes." With that curt dismissal a court in revolutionary France cut short the life of Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, argued by some to be the greatest chemist of all. L...

There could be a planet hiding out on the distant frontiers of our solar system. Astronomers have published new details about what it probably looks like.

A 2,000-year-old spiky object recently rediscovered in museum storage is the oldest known tattoo-making tool from western North America, a new study finds.

Twins can be fraternal, identical -- and in extremely rare cases -- semi-identical.