Sometimes, projects start in somewhat unlikely places. This one began when [Istvan Raduly] scored a fake raven at a neighbor’s garage sale and decided to turn it into a thunder-and-lightning ...

Many people believe that the LED was discovered by US researchers working in the 1960s. In fact, Henry Round at Marconi Labs noted the emission of light from a semiconductor diode 100 years ago and, ...

Broadband thermal radiation inevitably limits the performance of room-temperature infrared detectors. Here, the authors demonstrate an in-sensor background-offset cancellation mechanism enabled by ...