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 ...

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 ...

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, ...