NASA’s Got A Giant Space Laser And It’s Not Afraid to Use It

While NASA has been pulling off all kinds of cool accomplishments this year – from Juno arriving in Jupiter’s orbit to getting help from the public to solve the space poo dilemma – potentially one of the most important discoveries NASA scientists have made this year concerns microscopic underwater plants the entire planet’s delicate ecosystem … (more)

Advance in intense pulsed light sintering opens door to improved electronics manufacturing

Faster production of advanced, flexible electronics is among the potential benefits of a discovery by researchers at Oregon State University’s College of Engineering. Taking a deeper look at photonic sintering of silver nanoparticle films — the use of intense pulsed light, or IPL, to rapidly fuse functional conductive nanoparticles — scientists uncovered a relationship between film temperature and densification.