A German-Japanese research team involving the University of Augsburg has made a significant breakthrough in the use of ...

Even IT managers can get the blues. Or at least that’s what a gaggle of vendors are hoping as they prepare ultradense optical storage products based on blue-laser technology. Conventional optical ...

From punch card-operated looms in the 1800s to modern cellphones, if an object has an "on" and an "off" state, it can be used to store information. In a computer laptop, the binary ones and zeroes are ...

This optical device changes images and colors in response to different humidity levels. Under normal conditions or low humidity levels, one image (UC San Diego Triton logo) is visible. When humidity ...