Holographic light engine boosts tissue-like 3D printing efficiency by 70 times
May 2026, phys.org
Holographic Light Engines - 150-mW laser diode for tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing system to solidify entire millimeter-scale objects within seconds, and centimeter-scale objects within minutes
via EPFL's Laboratory of Applied Photonic Devices: Maria Isabel Álvarez-Castaño et al, High-efficiency multi-scale holographic volumetric 3D printing with a phase light modulator, Light: Science & Applications (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41377-026-02331-4
Image credit: AI Art - Broken Notebook - 2025
Laser-powered engines may soon support 'intelligent' 6G networks
May 2026, phys.org
Light Engines, aka Photonic Engine - lasers that can transfer large amounts of data over long distances by emitting high-quality white light
via University of Technology in Guangzhou: Tailoring quasi-transparent ceramic as a laser-driven photonic engine for kilometer-level white light communication, Matter (2026). DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2026.102822.
New kind of dark tourism emerging in online 'Backrooms,' study shows
May 2026, phys.org
Para-Terrestrial Dark Tourism - encounters with environments that feel place-like yet sit beyond conventional geography because they exist entirely online. ...
This comes at the time of the release of the movie Backrooms, about these kinds of spaces. ... I'm lost actually. The paper is like 3 paragraphs long, and although they use the word Žižekian, which is cool, what's written is almost complete gobbledegook. I still, by the end of the paper, have no idea what they're talking about, even the original rationale of the paper...like how much can we talk about a default page on mario paint and what it means to the cultural zeitgeist? They made a whole movie about it so I guess it's important. Right, because movies are still important. Wrong, the whole world is one big advertisement to manipulate us into buying The Way. And if you want to learn more about how the international academic community is co-opted by fake publishing houses, please learn more here: DEF CON 26 - Svea, Suggy, Till - Inside the Fake Science Factory - 2018 [link] ; OmniScript [wiki link]
via Lancaster University Management School: Sophie James et al, When dark tourism goes para-terrestrial: Online legend-tripping and touring the void, Annals of Tourism Research (2026). DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2026.104172
Unlocking soft robotics control with AI's cousin: Reservoir computing
May 2026, phys.org
Soft Robotics - made with a combination of soft materials and novel controls, soft robotics have a greater range of motion and more fluidity and flexibility than traditional rigid robotics.
Neural Reservoir - researchers input data about the movement of virtual soft robots, set parameters for what they expected to happen, ran virtual trials, and then analyzed the results. ... they created virtual models of different variations of movement and tested how they behaved. When they fed those results back into the system, a new model for the behavior of a soft robotic arm began to emerge—along with a new approach to the most effective way to control the arm.
via Virginia Tech: Noel Naughton et al, Neural reservoir control of a bio-hybrid soft arm, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2026). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2522094123
Introducing Weather Jiu-Jitsu, a new approach to avert catastrophic weather events
Jun 2026, phys.org
Weather Jiu-Jitsu - small adjustments that carefully leverage the atmosphere's sensitivity to disturbance could avert the worst effects of weather disasters ... Their modeling suggested that small, carefully timed cloud-seeding operations applied days before the peak of an extreme weather event could have shifted the track of 2012's Hurricane Sandy by about 300 miles (480 kilometers) to miss New York City, raised the low temperature of the 2021 Texas freeze by about 18 degrees Fahrenheit and reduced the amount of precipitation carried by a 2022 atmospheric river that caused flooding in California by about 5%.
via Arizone State: Huang Q, et al. Weather Jiu-Jitsu: Prospects for atmospheric nudging to defuse the impact of catastrophic weather extremes. PLOS Water (2026). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pwat.0000562
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