Researchers led by physicists at the University of Bath in the UK have found that adding a twist during the fabrication of optical fibres creates a more robust pathway for light, minimising the effects of manufacturing flaws that can cause signals to be lost.

Harvard researchers report a new way to make ultra-smooth, microscopic mirrors that form high-performance optical resonators, or cavities.

The human genome is a long sequence of DNA scattered with innumerable genetic variants that distinguish us. Extracting information from large biobank datasets about complex traits, influenced by thousands or millions of variants, remains a challenge. Using human height as a model, researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) have now tackled this problem and developed an enhanced algorithm, published in Cell Genomics, with potential applications in personalized medicine—and even at crime scenes.