Check out our editors' top news picks for this week, from Laser Focus World and elsewhere:
1. One of my favorite LFW cover stories this year and a good look at the technology behind Google Glass and other smart glasses.
"Head-worn displays: Useful tool or niche novelty?"
2. In contrast, here's an article from MIT Technology Review about the potential downside of such smart glasses--vulnerability to hacking.
"Researchers Find Security Cracks in Google Glass"
3. Understandably, the most popular article on the LFW website this week has been a blog about the fruit of the season, strawberries, from contributing editor Jeff Hecht.
"Deep-UV LEDs preserve strawberries"
4. Years of leading the way in ultrafast science and technology have been acknowledged by her peers--Ursula Keller serves as an inspiration to women entering the world of laser science and technology.
"Ultrafast laser researcher Ursula Keller wins 2013 LIA Schawlow Award"
5. Super-resolution microscopy provides a new understanding of the nuclear pore complex, which controls access to the genome by acting as a gate into the cell’s nucleus.
"Super-res microscopy solves the structure of the nuclear pore"