Sensing & Measurement

Snap is buying its AR display supplier for more than $500 million

The Verge: Snap has agreed to acquire WaveOptics, the supplier of the augmented reality displays that power its new Spectacles glasses, for more than $500 million, The Verge has learned. The deal is Snap’s largest ever, underscoring the company’s long-term bet…

Electric cars: Special dyes could prevent unnecessary motor replacements

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg: One day in the near future dyes in electric motors might indicate when cable insulation is becoming brittle and the motor needs replacing. Scientists at Martin Luther University…

Direct image of an electron orbit in an exciton is a first, say researchers

Physics World: For the first time, researchers have captured an image of an electron’s orbital probability cloud within an exciton. Keshav Dani, and colleagues at Japan’s Okinawa Institute of Science…

Nuclear Spins Detect Subtle Rotations

Physics: Future technologies for unmanned and autonomous vehicles need precise gyroscopes for reliable flight and navigation, but these devices are typically too large to be suitable for lightweight microscopic electronics. Now researchers have demonstrated a tiny gyroscope that exploits the behavior of atomic nuclei in diamond. Compared with previous…