Molecules/Matter & Energy

3-D effects without the glasses, plus portable X-rays and linking qubits in this week’s news

Glasses-free 3-D
A new type of hologram provides a 3-D image without glasses. And unlike many traditional holograms, this one comes in color. Current 3-D television technologies rely on overlapping images to give the illusion of depth. But the new technique, developed by Japanese scientists and published in the April 8 Science, uses white light to energize electrons in a thin film of metal.