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Caltech’s tiny new chip can steer light in 74 quadrillionths of a second

A new Caltech device can redirect a beam of light in just 74 femtoseconds using another beam and a nanoscale silicon metasurface. The breakthrough could pave the way for dramatically faster photonic communications, computing, and sensing technologies.

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Microbes may survive at the Moon’s south pole

Manned missions to the lunar polar regions must limit the unintended transfer of Earth life forms, say scientists The post Microbes may survive at the Moon’s south pole appeared first on Physics World…

  • Microbes may survive lunar surface conditions for up to seven days.
  • Researchers modeled bacteria and fungi on Moon's polar regions.
  • Dormant microorganisms pose contamination risk for manned missions.

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