While there is no shortage of skincare products on the market, there are times when cleansers, scrubs, physical exfoliators, and serums, simply won't cut it. Enter: laser treatments, specifically, ...

A team at EPFL has built an ultrafast laser on a single photonic chip that fires femtosecond pulses at energy levels ...

Part of the lanthanide series, erbium (Er) is a rare-earth element found in a wide range of minerals like blomstrandine, polycrase, fergusonite, euxenite, xenotime, and gadolinite. C.G. Mosander ...

Qubits are the building block for quantum technology, and finding or building qubits that are stable and easily manipulated is one of the central goals of quantum technology research. Scientists have ...

Scientists have successfully miniaturized a powerful erbium-based biber laser on a silicon-nitride photonic chip. Since typical erbium-based fiber lasers are large and difficult to scale down, the ...

A new, highly dangerous malware called “Erbium” has been making the rounds over the last couple of months, and it’s highly likely that it will spread to new channels. Erbium is an information-stealing ...

This week's element is erbium, which has the symbol Er and the atomic number 68. Erbium is another rare earths metal as its rhyming name alludes to. It was first isolated from minerals obtained from ...

If you were to try reciting the periodic table, you might stumble before you got to the rare earth elements. Comprising yttrium (element 39) and everything from lanthanum (element 57) to lutetium ...