New constellation will provide satellite imagery showing methane gas emissions and more.

Research – including optics and photonics specialisms – could yield benefits for wider global markets.

Recently acquired by II-VI and rebranded, firm also launches micro-pump lasers for broadband optical access networks.

Lattice lightsheet system based around earlier work by Nobel winner Eric Betzig probes living cells without damaging them.

Partners develop industrial processing spatial light modulator-head generating short pulse laser radiation.

Mszczonów factory developed to meet “growing demand for high-speed connectivity in Europe”.

Agreement to work on “green” manufacturing methods for electromobility and storage technologies.

NASA: future observations will reveal more about exoplanets than ever before.

Data from instrument on Perseverance rover could help clarify whether Mars might have hosted microbial life.

Lee Feinberg, JWST’s Optical Telescope Element Manager, explains how new scope continues to amaze.

Striking images of organic and inorganic systems demonstrate impact of imaging technology.

Second Sunday plenary, by Dr. Jun Ye, of JILA at University of Colorado, explored quantum science and metrology.