The direction in which the electromagnetic field of circularly polarized light rotates can be easily reversed by applying a ...

Helical liquid crystals can reverse the 'handedness' of light through the application of ultralow electric fields.

Research in microgravity offers unique insights into materials science, improving crystal formation and advancing the ...

A new model measures defects that can be leveraged to improve materials' mechanical strength, heat transfer, and ...

In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give materials useful ...

In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give materials useful new properties. Today ...

Semiconductor lithography is the most important technology in support of the modern world, forming the basis of manufacturing ...

Light can carry angular momentum in two distinct ways. One comes from polarization, which describes how the electric field ...

Researchers have created a nanoscale structure that traps infrared light in a layer just 40 nanometers thick—over 1,000 times ...

Astronomers discovered dozens of stellar streams in the Milky Way using Gaia data, offering new clues about galaxy formation ...

Veins of Earth. A satellite image shows some of the world’s rivers aglow as blue threads spread across Earth — a view never seen before in such detail or at such a scale. The image was captured by a ...