A new optical device allows researchers to generate and switch between two stable, donut-shaped light patterns called skyrmions. These light vortices hold their shape even when disturbed, making them ...

A new chip-making technique exploits a material's crystal structure to create nanoscale patterns at room temperature directly onto hard materials used in devices, including silica. The method could ...

James Webb Space Telescope reveals weather patterns from how planet WASP-94 A b filters the light of its parent star.

Flashes of femtosecond laser light, lasting just a few trillionths of a second, have made it possible to observe new magnetic ...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

The tale of the Microsoft Xbox Kinect is one of those sad situations where a great product was used in an application that turned out to be a bit of a flop and was discontinued because of it, despite ...

Slow light is an electromagnetic wave with a group velocity reduced by optical resonances in the medium through which it is travelling. These resonances can occur in atomic vapours, in photonic ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance professor who has been working in ...

Introduction Sports-related concussion (SRC) is an established research topic in the context of sport professionals suffering from mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), but there is scant investigation ...

Subtle changes are occurring in the nighttime world on our planet, according to NASA scientists who say an unexpected pattern ...

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