Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) are addressing a central challenge in quantum information science: how to build scalable, dependable networks capable of linking quantum systems across distances. Their efforts have led to two recent publications in Physical Review Letters and Sci...

Earlier research by Maayke Stomp and Professor Huisman showed that molecular absorption features in water give rise to "spectral niches"—specific wavelength ranges that photosynthetic organisms can exploit. Phytoplankton and cyanobacteria have evolved a wide variety of pigments tuned to th...