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The glass wing butterfly. Photo: shutterstock

Learn from the butterflies about full transparency

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Photomicrograph of a flat lens. Credit: Patrice Geneve, Federico Capasso and Francesco Aita, Harvard SEAS

A new figure for the lens - flat as a pancake / Prachi Patel

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Section a silicon wafer at the nanometer level using a laser. Illustration: 223880533

Video cameras for nanoparticles / Ben Fogelson

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Flexible LED

Curving on purpose / Kathryn Burzak

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Shanghai at night: light pollution increased by the haze. Photo: shutterstock

Light pollution at night - light can also be a pollutant

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Even nature reserves are not protected from light pollution
Cerambycidae Lamiinae Image courtesy of Jean-Philippe Roguet

A color-changing beetle inspires the production of a new type of anti-counterfeiting ink

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Prof. William Morner, one of the three winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. From Wikipedia

2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the Discoveries of the Fluorescent Microscope: Pushing the Limits of the Light Microscope

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The new design includes placing the mirrors on both sides of the gallium nitride and placing the electrodes above and below the gallium nitride.

An economical method of creating laser-like beams

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The silicon-germanium chip developed at IBM's research center. Photo: IBM

A new record for data transfer speed

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plankton. Photo: shutterstock

Who signed the groundbreaking article?

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sound waves. Illustration: shutterstock

A Ben-Gurion graduate who is on post at MIT has discovered a new way to affect wave propagation

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Germanium laser. Photo: MIT

A prestigious award from the American Physical Society will be awarded to Professor Mordechai (Motti) Segev from the Technion

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Actors present 'Star Wars' characters at an event in London, October 2012. Nando Machado / Shutterstock.com

Has the path to the development of the lightsaber of the Jedi Knights and the Sith been found?

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"Science Reveals": Technion researchers have developed a new type of photonic material: spinoptic metamaterial

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The paradox of Schrödinger's cat, from the Nobel Prize presentation on the prize committee's website

Schrödinger's cat resurrected as particles in the laboratories of the 2012 Nobel Prize winners in physics

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Prof. David Wineland, from Wikipedia

Controlling particles in the quantum world

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Prof. Serge Harosh, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics for Pioneers in the Field of Quantum Optics: Serge Herosh and David Weinland

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New fiber optic technology. Image: Penn State University

Photonics - the tricks of nature's color / Philip Ball

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Screenshot from a TED talk by Ed Boyden, one of the developers of the method for healing the nervous system using light

Light up/wake up the brain - control of animal behavior through optogenetics

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Figure 1: Two-dimensional Gaussian curve to illustrate the distribution of light in the beam. Values ​​in the center are high, and become low as the distance from the center is greater. Image source: Wikipedia.

So what do you do there at the university? Chapter 4: Does not stop at yellow - about non-linear optics

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The back side of the Holey Optochip. Illustration: IBM

Researchers at IBM have developed a new technology that will allow the transmission of a terabit of data in one second

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A quantum photonic chip. Illustration: University of Bristol in the UK

A photonic chip for the development of quantum processors

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Nano Funnel. Illustration Christian Hackenberger, Max Planck Institute

New light at the end of the tunnel

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Laser on silicon. Photo: University of California at Santa Barbara

let there be light

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An optical nanoengine based on light rotation with the help of a circular chain of "bigla" nanoantennas (a) and nanorods in different directions along the chain (b) which allows for increasing the light rotation.

Technion researchers have created new optics

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