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Soft Matter Mar 6, 2024

Researchers uncover new principle of motion in liquid crystals

A research team affiliated with UNIST has unveiled for the first time a new principle of motion in the microworld, where objects can move in a directed manner simply by changing their sizes periodically within a substance ...

Optics & Photonics Mar 19, 2024

Research team establishes synthetic dimension dynamics to manipulate light

In the realm of physics, synthetic dimensions (SDs) have emerged as one of the frontiers of active research, offering a pathway to explore phenomena in higher-dimensional spaces, beyond our conventional 3D geometrical space. ...

Condensed Matter Mar 14, 2024

Photon-like electrons in a four-dimensional world discovered in a real material

Dirac electrons were predicted by P. Dirac and discovered by A. Geim, both of whom were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 and in 2010, respectively. Dirac electrons behave like photons rather than electrons, for ...

Earth Sciences Mar 12, 2024

Seismological study shows ancient lower mantle flow field under Philippine sea plate

Researchers from China and Japan have discovered distinct characteristics of Earth's lower mantle flow field. They investigated seismic anisotropy in the upper part of the lower mantle beneath the Philippine Sea Plate (PSP) ...

Plants & Animals Feb 29, 2024

Research team reveals cellular and molecular basis of spur development in Impatiens uliginosa

As an important reproductive organ of angiosperms, flowers have a clear purpose and adaptive significance in their various characteristics. As a typical floral evolutionary feature, the floral spur is a tubular structure ...

Optics & Photonics Feb 6, 2024

Multi-dimensional multiplexing optical secret-sharing framework with cascaded liquid crystal holograms

Information security has become particularly crucial under the background of the big data era. Optical secret-sharing schemes encrypt information and physically divide it into different shares. Information can only be decrypted ...

Earth Sciences Feb 6, 2024

Structural geology study assesses potential effect of elastic differential stress on development of mineral fabrics

Earth is a stressed planet. As plates move, magma rises, and glaciers melt—just to mention a few scenarios—rocks are subject to varying pressure and compressional and extensional forces. The effect of these stresses on ...

Nanophysics Jan 19, 2024

Black phosphorus propels spintronics with exceptional anisotropic spin transport

With modern electronic devices approaching the limits of Moore's law and the ongoing challenge of power dissipation in integrated circuit design, there is a need to explore alternative technologies beyond traditional electronics. ...

Nanophysics Jan 10, 2024

Anisotropic plasmon engineering unlocks multilevel polarized upconversion

National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers have introduced an upconversion plasmonphore platform to enable precise control over the polarization of isotropic upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs). This is achieved by ...

Astronomy Nov 30, 2023

An anisotropic density turbulence model from the sun to 1 au derived from radio observations

Density turbulence in the solar corona and solar wind is evident via the properties of solar radio bursts; angular scattering-broadening of extra-solar radio sources observed through the solar atmosphere, and can be measured ...

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