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Now, using a system designed and built by the Fraunhofer Center for Applied Photonics in Glasgow, Vector Photonics’ PCSELs transmitted data through open air at the near-infrared wavelength of 1310 nanometers—in telecom’s O-band, a familiar wavelength for fiber-optic communications.
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IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2026
How Circadian Lighting Works Specialized cells in the retina are tuned to short-wavelength blue light around 480 nanometers and send signals straight to the master clock, telling it when to release melatonin and when to suppress it.
—Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 7 May 2026
Marine researcher Marcus Eriksen, one of three scientists invited to speak alongside Kennedy and Zeldin at the April EPA announcement, wrote in the Ventura County Star that nanoplastics have now been confirmed in brain, liver and kidney tissue, with particles as small as 200 nanometers.
—Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
Marine researcher Marcus Eriksen, one of three scientists invited to speak alongside Kennedy and Zeldin at the April announcement, wrote in the Ventura County Star that nanoplastics have now been confirmed in brain, liver and kidney tissue, with particles as small as 200 nanometers.
—Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 27 Apr. 2026
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IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2026
How Circadian Lighting Works Specialized cells in the retina are tuned to short-wavelength blue light around 480 nanometers and send signals straight to the master clock, telling it when to release melatonin and when to suppress it.
—Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 7 May 2026
Marine researcher Marcus Eriksen, one of three scientists invited to speak alongside Kennedy and Zeldin at the April EPA announcement, wrote in the Ventura County Star that nanoplastics have now been confirmed in brain, liver and kidney tissue, with particles as small as 200 nanometers.
—Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 30 Apr. 2026
Marine researcher Marcus Eriksen, one of three scientists invited to speak alongside Kennedy and Zeldin at the April announcement, wrote in the Ventura County Star that nanoplastics have now been confirmed in brain, liver and kidney tissue, with particles as small as 200 nanometers.
—Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 27 Apr. 2026
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“Nanometer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nanometer. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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nanometer
noun
nano·me·ter
variants
or chiefly British nanometre
: one billionth of a meter
—abbreviation nm
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