Light doesn’t just travel in straight lines—it can also twist. And when it does, it opens new frontiers in science and medicine. A recent breakthrough led by Professor Igor Meglinski at Aston ...

Eric D. Donnenfeld, MD, said that some ophthalmologists downplay the effects of more serious floaters, which he called ...

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Waxing makes me smooth, but is extremely painful. And in-office laser hair removal services are expensive as all hell and not quite as permanent as people claim. But turns out, the answer all ...

The HP LaserJet M209d is a sterling value among low-cost, print-only mono laser printers. (If you're considering an inkjet but print only occasionally, it's a tempting alternative.) Its paper ...

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By Jessica Alpert I had a hole in my chest. Three weeks had passed since my open-heart surgery. My body was rejecting some of my stitches, spitting them out like rotten food. “It should heal on ...

Physicists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory just created a petawatt laser beam with the highest peak power and current ever. This beam was formed from a bunch of electrons that were ...

If you wear corrective eyeglasses or contact lenses, you may be considering undergoing refractive laser surgery with laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK). It's appealing to be able to open ...

SVT Encore is a scalable video transcoding tool, built on Open Source giants like FFmpeg and Spring Boot. Encore was created to scale, and abstract the transcoding power of FFmpeg, and to offer a ...