You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...

By combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the optical properties of a ...

Discover the cool optical illusion label on a Redwood Empire whiskey bottle. Turn it around and see the surprise! Davos recap: Trump speech rules out using force to acquire Greenland The world has ...

have found a new way to image layers of boron nitride that are only a single atom thick. This material is usually nearly invisible in optical microscopes because it has no optical resonances. To ...

A project at Duke University has demonstrated how commercial AI models could accelerate microscopic examination of 2D materials and analysis of the results. The Duke Lab of Haozhe "Harry" Wang has ...

Haozhe “Harry” Wang’s electrical and computer engineering lab at Duke welcomed an unusual new lab member this fall: artificial intelligence. Using publicly available AI foundation models such as ...

Researchers in Germany and Australia have created a simple but powerful tool to detect nanoplastics—tiny, invisible particles that can slip through skin and even the blood-brain barrier. Using an ...

Detecting the presence of nanoscale plastic particles in the environment has become a topic of concern for industrial societies worldwide, not least since particles of that size can evade the body's ...

Figure 1. Conceptual illustration of label-free, multiphoton photoacoustic microscope (LF-MP-PAM). Near-infrared femtosecond laser enable us to observe endogenous NAD(P)H of neurons in brain slice and ...