The ring design has potential applications in telecommunications, medicine, and other fields. Scientists from the (SEAS), in collaboration with the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), have deve ...

Observations of a pulsar, consisting of a dead star spinning 600 times a second, and feasting on a stellar companion reveal ...

A new method turns noise into valuable data to enhance understanding of chemical reactions and material properties with unprecedented detail at the atomic level. The results of this research are now ...

At incredibly small scales, the universe operates according to the unfamiliar rules of quantum mechanics. And Planck’s ...

Biologists are very interested in how proteins, lipids and other compounds are organized and interact in systems. Very few ...

This article compares the performance of other fiber optic glass materials using silica as the baseline and closes with a ...

The associated research has been published in Optica. It was co-led by Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical ...

Scientists build a "metagrating" filter that selects light by both wavelength and angle—unlocking next-gen AR, sensors, and ...

Researchers have cracked a fundamental optical challenge: how to control both angle and wavelength of light independently—a ...

But this doesn’t really make much sense when you think about it. After all, the Moon isn’t putting off any light itself.

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