Read article: Donna Strickland gives inside story of her Nobel-prize-winning research
University of Waterloo physicist speaks at special lecture at the Institute of Physics headquarters in London
Read article: Japanese spacecraft set to attempt asteroid sample grab
Hayabusa2 is scheduled to touch down on the asteroid Ryugu at 8 a.m. Japan time on 22 February 2019
Read article: Satellites barely evade collision, stars are born in Van Gogh’s work, and scientists experiment with limoncello
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Tales of the 118 elements
Celebrating a Twitter project that links all the elements in the periodic table with anecdotes about their histories, uses and properties, in honour of the International Year of the Periodic Table
Read article: Explore exoplanets through multimedia tours, astronomy outreach through vibrations, and a professor gains knighthood
Excerpts from the Red Folder
Read article: Photonics startups rise to the healthcare challenge
Four of the six finalists in the Start-Up Challenge at Photonics West are pioneering light-based solutions for improved diagnosis and treatment
Read article: Doppler effect lights up future of self-driving cars
A frequency-modulated lidar system can detect the velocity of pedestrians and vehicles as well as their location
Read article: Mapping out the market for quantum technologies
A market evaluation by technology strategy company Tematys suggests that the quantum optics industry will be worth €1bn by 2028
Read article: Facebook sets challenge for future photonic chips
Performance and manufacturing improvements will be crucial to drive scalability in Facebook’s growing network of data centres
Read article: Biomedical optics in the spotlight
One of the flagship events at the BIOS conference highlights the innovations in biophotonics that are making a real difference in the clinic
