Optical frequency combs—laser sources that emit evenly spaced colors of light—are foundational, ubiquitous tools for precision measurement, found in optical clocks, gas-sensing spectrometers, and ...

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WASHINGTON — Researchers have developed a holographic data storage approach that stores and retrieves information in three dimensions by combining three properties of light — amplitude, phase and ...

The Education Department said Thursday that the Treasury Department will assume responsibility for collecting on defaulted student loans, the first of three phases to spin off key functions of the ...

A team of engineers at Fudan University has successfully designed, built and run a 32-bit RISC-V microprocessor that uses molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon as its semiconductor component. Their ...