The Optical Society: In this installment of Senior Member Insights, OPN talks with Susanna M. Thon—an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Johns Hopkins University and a fellow of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI), USA. Thon’s current research is…
Technology Review: In America, at least 17 people a day die waiting for an organ transplant. But instead of waiting for a donor to die, what if we could someday grow our own organs? Last week, six years after NASA announced…
Space.com: The aurora borealis found in the Northern Hemisphere and aurora australis in the Southern Hemisphere have captivated humankind since the dawn of civilization. These natural light shows provide…
Space.com: A team of scientists has gotten their best look yet at a gamma-ray burst, the most dramatic type of explosion in the universe. Astronomers think some of these explosions occur when a massive star — five or 10 times…
Physics World: Luz Ángela García is an astrophysicist who dreams of cracking the ultimate cosmological conundrum : why the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. Currently a postdoctoral researcher at…
