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Fused silica glass could soon be manufactured with the flexibility of a polymer, opening the door to a new generation of miniature devices for sensing, healthcare and precision engineering, according to researchers speaking at today's QAMSS lecture series.Delivering the latest lecture, Dr. Hamza Shakeel of Queen's University Belfast described how a…

Image credit: Draconianimages on Pixabay.How do you make powerful optical technologies smaller, faster and more practical? That was the question at the heart of today's QAMSS lecture, which explored how advances in specialty optical fibres are enabling remarkable nonlinear effects to be achieved over distances measured in centimetres rather than ki…

Image credit: Gerd Altmann, Pixabay.By Dr. Karen StewardMaterials that can move, change shape, heal themselves and adapt to their surroundings may sound like science fiction, but they are rapidly becoming a reality. That was the message delivered today by Prof. Eugene Terentjev, of the University of Cambridge, as he explored how advances in soft-ma…

Image credit: Dr. Lorenzo Peri.By Dr. Karen StewardThe biggest obstacle to building practical quantum computers may not be the qubits themselves but the vast tangle of electronics needed to control them. That was the key message from Dr. Lorenzo Peri of Quantum Motion Technologies, who delivered the latest QAMSS lecture, arguing that the future of …

Image credit: Gerd Altmann, Pixabay. Artificial intelligence is no longer just helping scientists analyse data, it is beginning to make discoveries of its own. That was the compelling message delivered today as Professor Ross King explored how AI-powered Robot Scientists are transforming research and accelerating scientific breakthroughs.Speaking …

Schematic, simulated and photographic illustrations of silicon photonics based on 3 µm thick silicon-on-on-insulator waveguides. Image credit: Timo Aalto and Mikko Harjanne.By Dr. Karen StewardDr. Timo Aalto outlined how advances in photonic integrated circuits could underpin the next generation of communications, artificial intelligence and sensin…

A beam of light can do far more than illuminate a material, it can determine how electrical currents flow, how particles interact and even how light is emitted. Those possibilities were at the heart of the lecture delivered today as part of the QAMSS lecture series by Prof. Marcos H. D. Guimarães of University of Cambridge, who explored how light p…

The ability to generate, manipulate and detect individual photons is becoming increasingly important in the race to develop practical quantum technologies. At today's QAMSS lecture, Prof. Vladimir M. Shalaev of Purdue University explored how advances in integrated photonics and novel optical materials are helping to turn that ambition into reality.…

Light at length scales far below the wavelength of light was the focus of today’s QAMSS lecture, delivered by Prof. Antonio Ambrosio of the Center for Nano Science and Technology at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Milan. His lecture, “Light at the Right Scale: Optical Probes for Low-Dimensional Materials”, explored how advanced optical and n…

The future of artificial intelligence could depend as much on memory as processing power, and today’s QAMSS lecture explored how a new generation of materials may transform both. Dr. Markus Hellenbrand of the University of Cambridge outlined how advances in resistive switching technologies could overcome some of the most pressing limitations facing…

A new generation of imaging technology capable of capturing depth, motion and even polarization in real time could reshape industries from advanced manufacturing to defence, according to a lecture delivered today by Dr Mehdi Asghari, from SiLC Technologies, USA, as part of the QAMSS lecture series.Dr Asghari explored how silicon photonics combined …

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the search for answers to some of physics’ most difficult questions, and today’s QAMSS lecture series talk showed just how transformative that shift could become. Prof. Giuseppe Carleo from EPFL, Switzerland explored how machine learning is opening new pathways to understand the hidden behaviour of stron…

As demand for data continues to surge, the challenge is no longer just speed but how to deliver it sustainably. At today’s QAMSS lecture, Prof. Martijn Heck of Eindhoven University of Technology outlined how the next generation of photonic technologies could meet both goals.Heck presented a clear assessment of why existing photonic integrated circu…

Signals constantly travel between the gut and brain, shaping how the body processes food, responds to stress and maintains energy balance, but much of this activity has remained out of reach. New research is beginning to change that, offering a way to directly record and interpret these hidden neural messages.At today’s QAMSS lecture, Professor Amp…

Water trapped inside channels so small they are measured in billionths of a metre may not behave like water at all. That was the striking message from today’s QAMSS lecture series talk held at the Cambridge Graphene Centre, where Dr Qian Yang revealed how squeezing water into atomically thin spaces uncovers an entirely different molecular world.Dr …