Nanoposts of varying shapes can act as pixels in two different holograms.
Credit: Andrei Faraon/Caltech
A team at Caltech has figured out a way to encode more than one holographic image in a single surface without any loss of resolution. The...
A schematic for a prototype of the proposed water cloaking device. It consists of wires and coils that create an electromagnetic field that acts on dissolved ions to move water around the object.
Credit: Yaroslav Urzhumov, Duke University
Researchers have developed...
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated sending messages in a secure manner using high dimensional quantum cryptography in realistic city conditions.
Credit: SQO team, University of Ottawa
For the first time, researchers have sent a quantum-secured message containing more than...
View of Milky Way (stock image).
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For close on a century, researchers have hypothesised that the universe contains more matter than can be directly observed, known as "dark matter." They have also posited the existence of...
Schematic illustration of a hybrid information network with two quantum nodes composed by a cold cloud of Rubidium (left red cloud) and a doped crystal with Praseodymium ions (right white cube).
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In a recent study, published in Nature, ICFO...
Fluoropor coating on a copper thin film.
Credit: Bastian E. Rapp, KIT
Water- and dirt-repellent sportswear and outdoor clothing, or anti-fog windshields -- there are many everyday products that can profit from highly hydrophobic coatings. For such coatings, researchers led by...
Physicists at MIT have designed a pocket-sized cosmic ray muon detector to track these ghostly particles.
Credit: Courtesy of the researchers
At any given moment, Earth's atmosphere is showered with high-energy cosmic rays that have been blasted from supernovae and other...
This image shows a visual representation of one of the highest-energy neutrino detections superimposed on a view of the IceCube Lab at the South Pole.
Credit: IceCube Collaboration
For the first time, a science experiment has measured Earth's ability to absorb...
A Kyoto University-based team has unraveled the mystery of gamma-ray emission cascades caused by lightning strikes.
Credit: Kyoto University/Teruaki Enoto
A storm system approaches: the sky darkens, and the low rumble of thunder echoes from the horizon. Then without warning... Flash!...
Close-ups of an experiment conducted by John Bush and his student Daniel Harris, in which a bouncing droplet of fluid was propelled across a fluid bath by waves it generated.
Credit: Dan Harris
The central mystery of quantum mechanics is that...
Artist's abstraction (stock illustration).
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Two USC researchers have proposed a link between string field theory and quantum mechanics that could open the door to using string field theory -- or a broader version of it, called...
