In 1958, the American free-market economist Leonard E Read published his famous essay I, Pencil, in which he made his point ...

Caltech scientists have developed a way to guide light on silicon wafers with low signal loss approaching that of optical ...

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The question is not how to eliminate friction. The question is how to manage it so it becomes traction and traction becomes forward motion.

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A new optical device allows researchers to generate and switch between two stable, donut-shaped light patterns called ...

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Photonic chips process and transmit information using light instead of electricity, guiding photons through microscopic structures on a chip.

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