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25 years later: Fixing the Hubble Space Telescope
Adam Frank, professor of physics and astronomy, discussed Hubble’s 25th anniversary on NPR. Listen to him celebrate what it has shown us. Twenty-five years ago today, the Hubble Space Telescope was...
View ArticleGenerating broadband terahertz radiation from a microplasma in air
Researchers at the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics have shown that a laser-generated microplasma in air can be used as a source of broadband terahertz radiation. In a paper published this...
View ArticleUniversity of Rochester team brings sense of touch to virtual reality
Virtual reality has made huge technological gains in the last decade, but the ability to feel your surroundings is not yet a part of many mainstream virtual reality systems. A group of University of...
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Rochester team receives National Eye Institute grant for restoring vision...
A team of researchers at the University of Rochester is designing an optical system to image responses to light of large numbers of individual cells in the retina, with the objective of accelerating...
View ArticleDefects in atomically thin semiconductor emit single photons
Researchers create optically active quantum dots in 2D semiconductor for the first time; may have applications for integrated photonics Researchers at the University of Rochester have shown that...
View ArticleFalling Walls Lab: Young researchers present ideas that remove barriers to...
What: Thirty-three scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs, 35 years old or younger, from all fields of study will present ideas that have the potential to make a significant positive impact on the...
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New smartphone app would track spread of Ebola
Rochester researchers receive NSF grant for pilot study with health workers in Nigeria The spread of ebola and other infectious diseases could be tracked – and victims of the diseases could more...
View ArticleFunding aimed at fusion energy awarded to Laboratory for Laser Energetics,...
The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has announced a two-year, $3.8 million award for Sandia National Laboratories and the University of Rochester’s Laboratory...
View ArticleDrawing a line between quantum and classical: Bell’s Inequality fails test as...
Quantum theory is one of the great achievements of 20th century science, yet physicists have struggled to find a clear boundary between our everyday world and what Albert Einstein called the “spooky”...
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Renowned particle physicist Susumu Okubo dies
Susumu Okubo, emeritus professor of physics at the University of Rochester and recipient of the American Physical Society’s J. J. Sakurai Prize in Theoretical Particle Physics, died on July 17 at the...
View ArticleVision expert David Williams receives Beckman-Argyros Award
$500,000 prize for his transformative breakthrough in vision research David Williams, widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on human vision, has been named the 2015 recipient of the...
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Researchers use laser to levitate glowing nanodiamonds in vacuum
Work represents first step towards a levitated system combining optical, spin, mechanical degrees of freedom Researchers have, for the first time, levitated individual nanodiamonds in vacuum. The...
View ArticleUniversity of Rochester Researchers Awarded $1.5 Million to Develop a...
Funding from ARPA-E Announced as Part of Initiatives by President Obama to Advance Innovative Clean Energy Technologies University of Rochester researchers have been awarded $1.5 million to develop a...
View ArticleNicholas George’s role as mentor celebrated in endowed optics professorship
The University of Rochester has announced the creation of a new professorship in optics that will recognize Professor Emeritus Nicholas George and his influence in the world of optics and on his...
View ArticleSigma Xi awards David R. Williams the William Procter Prize for Scientific...
David R. Williams, widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts on human vision, has been named the recipient of Sigma Xi’s 2015 William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement. The prize is...
View ArticleData mining Instagram feeds can point to teenage drinking patterns
Instagram could offer a novel way of monitoring the drinking habits of teenagers. Using photos and text from Instagram, a team of researchers from the University of Rochester has shown that this data...
View ArticleNew York State awards $9.2 million to renew CEIS as a Center for Advanced...
The Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences (CEIS) at the University of Rochester has been renewed by New York State as one of its Centers for Advanced Technology (CAT) and will receive $9.2...
View ArticleNew York State awards $9.2 million to renew CEIS as Center for Advanced...
The Center for Emerging and Innovative Sciences (CEIS) at the University of Rochester has been renewed by New York State as one of its Centers for Advanced Technology (CAT) and will receive $9.2...
View ArticleRochester team among those awarded $3 million Breakthrough Prize for work...
Two University of Rochester professors, Steven Manly and Kevin McFarland, as well as two postdocs and a former graduate student, are some of the laureates of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental...
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Rochester scientist discovers new comet
A University of Rochester scientist has discovered a new comet – the first to be discovered by an astronomer associated with the University of Rochester or the Rochester area in over a century, his...
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