For decades, astronomers who wanted to know where frozen water hides inside the Milky Way’s star-forming clouds had to ...

A closed door feels absolute. Light stays in one room, darkness settles in the next, and the boundary seems obvious enough to ...

ABSTRACT: Phenolic compounds pose a significant risk to the quality of water since they often remain persistent across the water supply chain. For the urban and peri-urban populations that leverage ...

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, US have used visible light to both image and manipulate the domains of a chiral antiferromagnet (AFM). By “painting” complex patterns onto ...

Researchers have found a way to mimic lightspeed when photographing an object. The method involves stitching together many thin “slices” of light reflecting off the object. Photography—itself a ...

Researchers from the Advanced Science Research Center at CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) have made a breakthrough in the design of nonlinear metasurfaces. Described in eLight, the team's device is a ...

Adding zinc ions to lithium niobate crystals cuts the energy needed for polarization switching by 69%, enabling visible-light programming of memristors for brain-inspired computing. (Nanowerk ...

Have you ever wondered what the invisible world of radio waves might look like if you could actually see it? Rootkid explains how his project, the Spectrum Slit, transforms the unseen chaos of ...

A laboratory setup shows yellowish and bluish light from two lamps shining on a metallic reactor. Deep-ultraviolet, infrared, and visible light shine on carbon dioxide and methane in a reactor, ...

A powerful geomagnetic storm is causing the northern lights to be visible across the United States. While creating beautiful auroras, intense solar storms can also threaten power grids and ...

Geomagnetic storms brought the northern lights to much of the U.S. this week, painting the sky in vibrant hues of green and pink. "Well, we had activity tonight — a lot of geomagnetic storm activity," ...

Copper cobaltate nanoneedles coated with zinc oxide hit 99.5 percent light absorption, surpassing carbon nanotubes and boosting concentrated solar power efficiency. That will pave the way towards ...