Light can be turned into a glowing stream of liquid that splits into droplets and splatters off surfaces just like water. The researchers who've worked out how to do this say "liquid light" would be the ideal lifeblood for optical computing, where chips send light around optical "circuits" to process data.
A student at Harvard University has stumbled across the terrifying spectacle of a star in our galactic backyard that is on the brink of exploding in a supernova. It is so close that if it were to blow up before moving away from us, it could wipe out life on Earth.
Backed by a US Army grant of $50 million over five years, MIT has launched a new Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. The institute is tasked with innovating materials and designs that will reinvent soldiers' uniforms, turning them into high tech gear that rivals the best science fiction.
Japanese researchers have made advances in 'muon-fusion', a fusion method that uses a particle called a muon to squeeze together adjacent nuclei.