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Optics & Photonics Apr 2, 2025

Enhancing light control with complex frequency excitations

Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) and at Florida International University report in the journal Science their insights on the emerging field of complex frequency excitations, ...

Optics & Photonics Apr 2, 2025

A router for photons: Transducer could enable superconducting quantum networks

Applied physicists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a photon router that could plug into quantum networks to create robust optical interfaces for noise-sensitive ...

Nanophysics Apr 1, 2025

Doubling down on metasurfaces: Bilayer device can control many forms of polarized light

Almost a decade ago, Harvard engineers unveiled the world's first visible-spectrum metasurfaces—ultra-thin, flat devices patterned with nanoscale structures that could precisely control the behavior of light. A powerful ...

Social Sciences Apr 1, 2025

UK public picks most important discoveries of all time

A new survey reveals that the UK public considers the mobile phone to be the second most important invention of all time, with the majority of people admitting they couldn't live without theirs.

Bio & Medicine Apr 1, 2025

Liquid-bodied robot enables precise eradication of implant-related biofilm infections

An international research team led by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has achieved a breakthrough in the field of medical microrobots by developing the world's first antibiofilm liquid-bodied magnetic-controlled ...

Space Exploration Apr 1, 2025

How to engineer microbes to enable us to live on Mars

A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from golden rice, which is genetically engineered to provide vitamin A, to advances stemming from the Human Genome ...

Cell & Microbiology Apr 1, 2025

Live-cell labeling sheds light on how our DNA is packed and behaves in cells

A team led by Professor Kazuhiro Maeshima of the National Institute of Genetics (ROIS) and SOKENDAI in Japan has developed a method to visualize different types of chromatin and reveal their distinct physical properties. ...

Plants & Animals Apr 1, 2025

Mysterious falcon decline: American Kestrel juveniles thrive amid population drop

North America's smallest falcon, the American Kestrel (Falco sparverius), has declined across the continent since the 1970s, yet the causes continue to stump raptor biologists. A new study published in the Journal of Raptor ...

Nanophysics Apr 1, 2025

Controlling quantum light at room temperature with tunable nanostructures and low voltage

The ability to control the color, or emission wavelength, of light from quantum sources is central to the development of secure quantum communication networks and photonic-based computing. However, most systems capable of ...

Nanophysics Apr 1, 2025

Scientists merge two 'impossible' materials into new artificial structure

An international team led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers has merged two lab-synthesized materials into a synthetic quantum structure once thought impossible to exist and produced an exotic structure expected ...

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