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Beetle-inspired film reflects 95% of solar radiation
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Femtosecond photonics: precision meets robustness
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Twin Airy beams image tiny particles flowing in the bloodstream of live fish
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Nonlinear integrated photonics speeds up coherent lidar
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�?Twistronics for photons’ brings tunable diffraction-free light rays
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�?Photon crystals’ could be made using Rydberg atoms
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Microwave timing signals get hundredfold boost in stability
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Solitons from new fibre laser could improve eye surgery
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Artificial eye has the potential to outperform human vision
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Optical phased array steers blue light
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Far-ultraviolet light could fight the next pandemic, assessing the physics in a sci-fi blockbuster, how to detect a black hole in the solar system
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Retinal imaging goes high resolution
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New devices produce and detect twisted light
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