To build novel quantum devices, researchers need to be able to control individual photons of light Columbia Engineers propose doing so with a time lens. Like a magnifying glass zooming in on a spatial feature, this device “magnifies” time and enabled the team, led by Chaitali Joshi and Alexander Gaeta, to identify single photons from a larger laser beam at picosecond resolution—that’s 70x faster than has been observed with other types of single-photon detectors.

Using biological experiments, robot models, and a geometric theory of locomotion, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology investigated how and why intermediate lizard species, with their elongated bodies and short limbs, might use their bodies to move. They uncovered the existence of a previously unknown spectrum of body movements in lizards, revealing a continuum of locomotion dynamics between lizardlike and snakelike movements.

A research team co-led by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) have successfully developed a novel Vacuum Ultra-Violet (VUV) meta-lens which can generate and focus the VUV light, a disruptive technology for the UV optics market.

After 34 years and some 75,000 generations, the prolific bacteria leave the Lenski lab to continue evolving in Texas. New research published in New Scientist and a long list of new questions proves MSU is hardly letting go.

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have developed a biodegradable, antimicrobial food packaging.

University of Cincinnati researchers found evidence of sustainable agriculture and forestry spanning a millennia in one ancient Maya city. UC researchers used genetic and pollen analyses to provide the most detailed examination to date of the wild and cultivated plants found in the ancient Maya city Yaxnohcah, which was occupied between 1,800 and 3,000 years ago in what is now Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.

The lack of a reference genome for Solanum lycopersicoides has limited the study of this wild relative of the cultivated tomato. A team of researchers has assembled a reference genome for the wild species and created web-based tools that will enable tomato researchers and breeders to use the genome to improve the crop, such as by improving nutrition and resistance to disease and drought.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) can have significant implications for the wellbeing of mothers and children during separation and divorce. Yet IPV is often not included in custody cases or factored into court decisions, a new University of Illinois study shows.