European synchrotron secures €177m upgrade
New beamlines will allow nanometre-scale experiments at Grenoble lab
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Light moves tiny devices
Researchers combine nanophotonics and nanomechanics
A simpler route to invisibility
Geometry of curved space could be used to make broadband cloak, say physicists
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First ‘bona fide’ direct images of exoplanets
Hubble, Gemini and Keck spot four new planets outside our solar system
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Phoenix unlocks the icy history of Mars
Jacqueline Hewett speaks to Peter Smith, the principal investigator on NASA's Phoenix mission to Mars
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Measuring ultrashort pulses needs precision
Marie Freebody speaks to Rick Trebino about the intricacies of measuring ultrashort pulses and how the devices that characterize such pulses can be commercialized
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Optical tweezers: where physics meets biology
Joost van Mameren explains how quantitative force measurements by optical tweezers can unravel the mechanical properties of biological molecules
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Invisibility extends out of its shell
This invisibility cloak can make a nearby object vanish, say researchers
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Menlo takes frequency combs to the masses
Nadya Anscombe discovers how Nobel prize winning research has been turned into a practical product
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Plasmonics propagates into new optical fields
Marie Freebody speaks to Niek van Hulst about the potential wealth of applications for plasmonics
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