Invisible light beyond the range of human vision plays a vital role in communication technologies, medical diagnostics, and optical sensing. Ultraviolet and near-infrared wavelengths are routinely ...

When the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, announced on 22 January that it would stop funding most research involving human fetal tissue, many ...

If you’ve ever passed the cockpit while boarding a flight and tried to pick up bits from your pilots’ conversation, you probably didn’t glean much from them. From terms like “niner” to “Zulu,” ...