{
  "id": 8246188,
  "title": "Caltech’s tiny new chip can steer light in 74 quadrillionths of a second",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/caltechs-tiny-new-chip-can-steer-light-in-74-quadrillionths-of-a",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-18T11:50:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ScienceDaily",
    "slug": "sciencedaily",
    "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260918024823.htm"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}