California-based Oclaro Inc. has agreed to acquire the local Spectra-Physics operation of Newport Corp. as part of an asset-exchange deal. Oclaro plans to consolidate some of Spectra-Physics' laser ...

Participants in a Physics Summer Camp, designed for high school students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, take a tour of Mississippi State’s Raspet Flight Research Laboratory. Each day, campers are ...

Certain isotopes such as Indium-115 (In-115) are extremely long lived, taking over 100 trillon years for half of the Indium atoms to decay away. These isotopes allow scientists to probe the precise ...

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