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Scientists have long known that light reduces in speed when travelling through matter, but the magnitude of this slow-down in materials like glass or water is less than a factor of two.
AZoNano has collaborated with the Graphene Flagship to highlight two outstanding women innovating the field of graphene research.
Physicists in China report that they have built a tractor beam capable of pulling objects on the macroscale. It's not quite Star Trek, but it's a start, eh?
Researchers have developed a way to use laser light to pull a macroscopic object. Although microscopic optical tractor beams have been demonstrated...
The membership of Optica elected James Kafka as the society’s 2023 vice president; Kafka is CTO at Spectra-Physics and an MKS fellow. Julie Sher