Photonic chips process and transmit information using light instead of electricity, guiding photons through microscopic structures on a chip.

Every so often, a semiconductor startup emerges claiming to have cracked a problem the industry’s biggest players have wrestled with for decades. Most fade quietly, but occasionally, one arrives that ...

Bees navigate their surroundings with astonishing precision. Their brains are now inspiring the design of tiny, low-power chips that could one day guide miniature robots and sensors.