Stem cells involved in replenishing human tissues and blood depend on an enzyme known as telomerase to continue working throughout our lives. When telomerase malfunctions, it can lead to both cancer ...

Cool connection: Visualization of a cryogenic electro-optical interconnect for superconducting devices. (Courtesy: Amir Youssefi, EPFL) Scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have shown how using fiber optic cables, a pervasive, if unseen, fixture in today’s society, could help better predict when an earthquake might ...

When a high-power ultrashort pulse of light interacts with a material such as a glass optical fibre, a range of highly nonlinear interactions take place that cause complex changes in both the temporal ...

Macquarie University researchers have developed an improved laser system that will help large optical telescopes to gather more accurate data. Large-diameter ground-based optical telescopes now ...

Very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique in radio astronomy whereby multiple radio telescopes cooperate to bundle their received data and in effect create a much larger singular radio ...

Physicists have developed a new optical centrifuge that can precisely spin molecules inside a superfluid for the first time.

An increasing number of seismologists are using fiber optic cables to detect seismic waves on Earth -- but how would this technology fare on the Moon, and what would it tell us about the deep layers ...