Innovations boost disabled literacy
Physicists have developed tools to help disabled people to write and blind people to read
Semiconductors stride ahead
Medicine, communications and computing could benefit from advances in semiconductor science
Electron pulses reach the femtosecond scale
Bursts of electrons – rather than light – could probe ultra-fast processes
Acoustics map out the brass section
Reflected pulses could help to tune the timbre of trumpets and cornets
Read article: NMR could help clear landmines
NMR could help clear landmines
New technique detects nitrogen in explosives
Read article: Super-sensor seeks out water
Super-sensor seeks out water
A sensitive humidity detector could improve crop yields and save water in dry regions
Semiconductor laser makes broadband debut
Applications abound across the spectrum for ‘quantum cascade’ technique
“Lasetron” could probe the nucleus
Pulses of radiation just zeptoseconds long could be generated with existing lasers
Nanotubes feel the heat
Carbon nanotubes make versatile nano-sized thermometers
Probe to predict landslides and earthquakes
Electrical signals that herald seismic activity could lead to an early warning system
