Scientists show that the geometry behind light waves can affect how light moves and interacts inside materials. Their ...

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) detector network has a new trick up its sleeve to improve the instruments' sensitivity to ...

Evaporation-assisted chip cooling lowers LED temperatures while preserving heat flow for small but useful waste-heat energy ...

But a new methodology involves considering the ‘quantum geometry’ of a solid. It entails studying the geometric structures ...

Stardust trapped in Antarctic ice reveals tens of thousands of years of Solar System's past Iron-60 discovery in Antarctic ...

Gold nanoparticle layers dynamically reorganize with temperature and compression, enabling tunable, responsive materials for ...

Using an additive manufacturing technique called two-photon lithography, researchers can use light to create 3D nanoscale ...

For the first time, researchers observe and control how angular momentum is transferred between vibrations of a crystal lattice. (Nanowerk News) An international team of researchers, including ...

Scientists design polymer networks that enable hydrogels to self-oscillate or convert light into chemical energy.

Chemists have designed a light activated metal organic framework (MOF) that pulls water from the air and stores it in cavities triggered by sunlight alone. The results, which would need to be tested ...

Moon soil mineral becomes a working carbon dioxide recycling catalyst when sunlight and heat reshape its surface chemistry.