If the jokes on NBC’s new fall sitcom “Coupling” sound familiar, it’s because they’ve been repeated word-for-word all summer on BBC America. English shows have inspired American TV hits since “All in ...

In recent years, there has been a lot of interest in coupling sound and light together. Admittedly, we’ve been doing this for a long time, but we’ve always been limited in terms of what we can do with ...

Yale scientists have uses acoustic waves to amplify light in a new type of silicon laser for photonic ICs, side-stepping the problem of silicon’s indirect bandgap. “Silicon’s intrinsic properties, ...