NASA names the successor to Hubble
NASA has awarded a contract worth $825m to TRW to build the James Webb Space Telescope
Optical tweezers grab the limelight
A self-correcting laser beam can manipulate particles in new ways
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MEMs see the light
Electrode implants could provide a cure for blindness
Innovations boost disabled literacy
Physicists have developed tools to help disabled people to write and blind people to read
Water vapour supplies new climate clues
Novel tests on water molecules could solve the solar radiation discrepancy
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Semiconductors stride ahead
Medicine, communications and computing could benefit from advances in semiconductor science
Photons double up for solar power
A semiconductor device could boost the efficiency of solar cells by 30%
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Entanglement passes screen test
Physicists reveal the quantum nature of surface excitations for the first time
Silver foils the diffraction limit
Fine patterns on metal films could lead to smaller photonic and electronic devices
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Laser lithography makes cheaper chips
A new manufacturing process could revolutionize the semiconductor industry
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