Janelle Shane

In the grand science geek tradition, proposal success is often celebrated by the ritual baking of themed cupcakes. NASA funded my phase 1 proposal to build holographic laser tweezers for the International Space Station! Holographic laser tweezers are about as cool as they sound - beams of laser light that

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It turns out it’s surprisingly difficult to take a selfie in a welding helmet, as its safety shutter is triggered by the phone screen’s brightness. Squinting at a steep angle seems to do the trick.

Lab space heater is happy!

It turns out sapphire is a very useful high-tech material, due to its hardness, insulating properties, optical transparency, and thermal conductivity. By starting with a tiny seed crystal, a huge column of highly pure crystal can be slowly drawn out of a molten vat, producing big honking specimens like the