New metasurface design can control optical fields in three dimensions
A team led by scientists at the University of Washington has designed and tested a 3-D-printed metamaterial that can manipulate light with nanoscale precision....
Next-generation single-photon source for quantum information science
Over the last two decades, tremendous advances have been made in the field of quantum information science. Scientists are capitalizing on the strange nature...
Astronomers observe how two suns collect matter in a binary system
Stars are born in the midst of large clouds of gas and dust. Local densifications first form "embryos," which then collect matter and grow....
Inventing the world’s strongest silver
A team of scientists has made the strongest silver ever—42 percent stronger than the previous world record. But that's not the important point.
"We've discovered...
Groundwater pumping could ‘devastate’ river systems
Rampant and unsustainable extraction of groundwater reserves crucial for food production will "critically impact" rivers, lakes and wetlands in half of Earth's drainage basins...
Researchers repurpose failed cancer drug into printable semiconductor
Many potential pharmaceuticals end up failing during clinical trials, but thanks to new research from the University of Illinois, biological molecules once considered for...
Scientists recreate in flies the mutations that let monarch butterfly eat toxic milkweed with...
The fruit flies in Noah Whiteman's lab may be hazardous to your health.
Whiteman and his University of California, Berkeley, colleagues have turned perfectly palatable fruit...
The violent history of the big galaxy next door
Astronomers have pieced together the cannibalistic past of our neighbouring large galaxy Andromeda, which has now set its sights on the Milky Way as...
A metronome for quantum particles
A new measurement protocol, developed at TU Wien (Vienna), makes it possible to measure the quantum phase of electrons—an important step for attosecond physics.
It...
Why magnetism in certain materials is different in atomically thin layers and their bulk...
Researchers led by MIT Department of Physics Professor Pablo Jarillo-Herrero last year showed that rotating layers of hexagonally structured graphene at a particular "magic...
Climate change could pit species against one another as they shift ranges
Species have few good options when it comes to surviving climate change—they can genetically adapt to new conditions, shift their ranges, or both.
But new...
