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Using artificial intelligence, engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new way to watch the ...

A material built to tell left-handed light from right-handed light has long had a frustrating weakness. It mostly ignored ...

Professor Iksung Kang (School of Electrical Engineering), in collaboration with Professor Na Ji's research team at UC ...

Scientists have achieved a major step toward chip-scale ultraviolet light by converting red light into powerful UV within a ...

Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have uncovered new insights into the bioluminescence of a ...

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Scientists have developed a new type of semiconductor material that can do something unusual: it can tell the difference ...

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Imagine a display that harvests ambient light when it is not actively in use, offsetting some of its own energy consumption.

A project at Stanford University has developed a non-invasive method of delivering light to desired locations within the body. Published in Nature Materials the findings provide a ...

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