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optics students who researched new optical fiber

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Rochester researchers document record-setting optical fiber

September 23, 2020

The innovative fiber—made of seven capillaries surrounding a hollow core—may be a promising platform for quantum information processing and other applications.

illustration of photonics-based modulator

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Photonics researchers report breakthrough in miniaturizing light-based chips

August 26, 2020

A Rochester team demonstrates a new way to control light as it moves through integrated circuits, paving a research avenue in communications, computing, and photonics research.

illustration of hohlraum simulating white dwarf star

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Experiments replicate high densities in ‘white dwarf’ star remnants

August 16, 2020

Rochester researchers help lead work to simulate pressures of white dwarf stars, work that may offer ideas for creating new materials on Earth.

illustration of exoplanet formation

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Rochester leads effort to understand matter at atom-crushing pressures

August 10, 2020

The University is the host institution for a NSF-funded national collaboration to explore ‘revolutionary states of matter.’

illustration of stretched-pulse soliton Kerr resonator

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Project creates more powerful, versatile ultrafast laser pulse

Institute of Optics research sets record for shortest pulse for newly developed technology, work that has important applications in engineering and biomedicine.

social media bubbles over Manhattan

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Study: Twitter mirrors our attitudes and feelings about COVID-19

Themes of anxiety, depression, and fear of shortages emerge as Rochester researchers continue to mine social media as a reflection of the United States “in the moment.”

Comet Neowise in sky over Arizona

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How to view Comet NEOWISE

Work by Rochester researchers will help make a space-based infrared telesecope—the kind that detected Comet NEOWISE—even more precise.

Illustration of OSIRIS-REx collecting samples on an asteroid surface.

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New data about asteroid surfaces will help explorers touch down safely

Using sand, marbles, and mathematical modeling, Rochester researchers from across departments worked to improve the accuracy of data collected from the surfaces of asteroids.

illustration of cellular enzyme

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Rochester biologists selected for ‘rapid research’ on COVID-19

Rochester biologists are exploring how coronavirus interacts with cellular proteins to cause COVID-19 under a priority NSF program.

person sanitizing a face shield

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Engineers help volunteer group provide protective gear for caregivers

A University engineering team uses 3-D printers and laser cutters to make face shields as part of a community-wide effort to supply much-needed safety equipment.

Replenishment oiler USNS Joshua Humphreys refuels USS Boxer.

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This low-cost catalyst helps turn seawater into fuel at scale

For the first time, Rochester chemical engineers have demonstrated that a “potassium-promoted” chemical catalyst can be used to convert seawater into fuel on an industrial scale.

Aluminum panel, facing the sun, and sitting atop body of water near shoreline showing factories.

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Lasers etch an efficient way to address global water crisis

Researchers in the lab of optics professor Chunlei Guo use lasers, sunlight, and aluminum panels to develop the most efficient means yet of purifying contaminated water.