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A technician maneuvers a laser diagnostic outside the target chamber of the Omega EP laser at the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics.

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University’s STELLAR project advances in national ‘innovation engines’ competition

The National Science Foundation grant will connect University, industry, and business partners to grow the region’s laser workforce.

Two people in a green wheat field with a drone flying nearby overhead.

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How brain-inspired analog systems could make drones more efficient

Electrical and computer engineers want to mimic the brain’s visual system to create AI tools for guiding autonomous systems.

Asian senior women working with laptop computer and using smart speakers while setting in living room at home.

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Can Amazon Alexa or Google Home help detect Parkinson’s?

A quick, speech-based AI tool offers a new way to screen for a key indicator of the neurodegenerative disease.

Close-up of a blue-gloved finger holding an intraocular lens.

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What are intraocular lenses? And how can they restore sight for patients with cataracts?

New technology is quickly improving the world’s most common form of eye surgery.

Illustration of a close-up of vertical stacks of light blue cubes representing qudits in Hilbert space connected at the bottom to circuitry.

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Researchers discover more efficient way to route information in quantum computers

Using qudits, Rochester scientists have solved a notoriously difficult problem involving Hilbert space, or the quantum matrix.

An array of plastics and microplastics, from utensils to cigarette butts, against a white background.

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Time to throw away the plastics in your kitchen?

Rochester researchers on the growing concern of plastics exposure on human health.

Close up of fiber optics cables lit up with a woman out of focusing behind them looking at the cables.

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The surprising way that fiber optics connects us

An optics expert explains how thin strands of glass that transmit light make modern telecommunications possible.

computer illustration of a group of connected atoms.

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New method to study catalysts could lead to better batteries

A new algorithm opens the door for using artificial intelligence and machine learning to study the interactions that happen on the surface of materials.

Group of fire ants surround a larger queen fire ant.

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How the genetic few can sway the many

A study of fire ants reveals the surprising power of genetics in shaping social organization and group behavior.

little brown bat in mid flight through green leaves.

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Why don’t bats get cancer?

Rochester scientists discover that long-lived bats resist cancer thanks to strong immune systems and protective genes—findings that could offer new insights into human aging and disease prevention.

Close-up of a chip-scale laser held in front of a penny, highlighting its miniature size and intricate gold circuitry.

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New laser smaller than a penny can measure objects at ultrafast rates

The chip-scale laser has applications ranging from guiding autonomous vehicles to detecting gravitational waves.

Joseph Eberly

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Pioneering physicist and optical scientist Joseph Eberly remembered

His serendipitous original foray into optics research would help advance the fields of quantum optics and optical physics.