Semiconductor nanowire lasers are promising ultracompact light sources for miniaturized optical processing and sensing, but their efficiency is limited by the difficulty of confining light in a struct...
Read article: On-chip nanowire laser delivers on data
Tropical cyclones devour moisture while on the move
Read article: How hurricanes replenish their vast supply of rainwater
Facet-selective epitaxy produces colloidal quantum dot lasers with a threshold for continuous-wave lasing that’s seven times lower than previously reported
Read article: Squashed quantum dots solve a multi-faceted problem
Cancer is a complex disease to treat, and yet the operating principle of many current treatments is to simply kill healthy cells a little slower than cancerous ones. In response, scientists at The Uni...
Read article: Nanomedicine enables all-in-one cancer treatment
Two independent groups eliminate single- and two-photon effects
Read article: Three-photon interference measured at long last
Group now aims to build a quantum simulator
Read article: Ten superconducting qubits entangled by physicists in China
Adding nanoparticles to the surface of tumour cells could make them more susceptible to treatment with particular cancer drugs, according to new research at MIT. The study showed that nanoparticles te...
Read article: Nanoparticles boost performance of cancer drugs
Simple, low-cost device could be a boon to biologists
Read article: How to weigh tiny objects using sound
Spin-squeezed states form a deeply quantum system
Read article: Bell correlations measured in 500,000 atoms
A new type of nanoparticle, with promise for targeted drug delivery, is able to evade the host immune system
Read article: Leukosomes engage stealth mode by altering their protein shell
