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Optics & Photonics May 8, 2024

Terahertz flexible multiplexing chip enabled by synthetic topological phase transitions

The terahertz band is a gap band between microwave and infrared, and has shown great application potential in many cutting-edge information fields such as 6G communications. Terahertz silicon-based photonics has many advantages ...

Nanophysics May 7, 2024

Materials scientists reveal pathway for designing optical materials with specialized properties

While we usually think of disorder as a bad thing, a team of materials science researchers led by Rohan Mishra, from Washington University in St. Louis, and Jayakanth Ravichandran, from the University of Southern California, ...

Astronomy May 6, 2024

Study investigates a nearby M-dwarf binary system

Using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have explored a nearby binary stellar system composed of two M dwarfs, known as LP 349−25AB. Results of the study, presented April 25 on the pre-print server arXiv, ...

Plants & Animals May 3, 2024

NASA is helping protect tigers, jaguars, and elephants—here's how

As human populations grow, habitat loss threatens many creatures. Mapping wildlife habitat using satellites is a rapidly expanding area of ecology, and NASA satellites play a crucial role in these efforts. Tigers, jaguars, ...

Planetary Sciences May 3, 2024

Earth from space: Namibian landforms

This image may resemble the surface of Mars, but it was actually captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, revealing the stunning terrain of northwest Namibia.

Planetary Sciences May 1, 2024

NASA balloons head north of Arctic Circle for long-duration flights

NASA is set to begin launch operations mid-May for the 2024 Sweden Long-Duration Scientific Balloon Campaign. Four stadium-sized, scientific balloons carrying science missions and technology demonstrations are scheduled to ...

Optics & Photonics Apr 29, 2024

Laser imaging could offer early detection for at-risk artwork

Look closely at Impressionist paintings in museums compared with photos of them taken 50 years ago, and you might notice something odd: Some are losing their bright yellow hues.

Nanomaterials Apr 29, 2024

Adequately stabilized and exposed Cu/CuₓO heterojunction on porous carbon nanofibers

Inexpensive and readily available copper-based catalysts are considered ideal for the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) to produce multi-carbon products. The presence of copper oxides is crucial for generating ...

Optics & Photonics Apr 29, 2024

New tech enables deep tissue imaging during surgery

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) is a state-of-the-art technique that captures and processes information across a given electromagnetic spectrum. Unlike traditional imaging techniques that capture light intensity at specific wavelengths, ...

Astronomy Apr 28, 2024

Here's why we should put a gravitational wave observatory on the moon

Scientists detected the first long-predicted gravitational wave in 2015, and since then, researchers have been hungering for better detectors. But the Earth is warm and seismically noisy, and that will always limit the effectiveness ...

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