Controlling light with light is a long-sought goal for computing and communication technologies. Achieving this capability ...

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NYU researchers have found a way to use light to control how microscopic particles assemble into crystals, effectively ...

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Researchers from Tuskegee University, Alabama, have developed a new photonic crystal (a kind of ...

The study suggests that both humans and chimpanzees possess a “shared cognitive predisposition” for crystals. Whenever such a ...

Erasable electric fields written by laser light onto crystal surfaces can trap, align, and release living cells without ...

The snow hitting the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic is heavier and wetter than other storms this season. Here’s why, and how to avoid injury while shoveling.

Defect-filled lead-halide perovskites rival silicon solar cells because domain walls inside the material separate and guide charges. Researchers visualized these charge-transport networks using a ...

Researchers at Utrecht University have quantitatively mapped the three-dimensional structure of photonic supraparticles for the first time. Until now, researchers could only examine the outer surface ...

After legendary singer Aretha Franklin purchased a historical Tudor-style home near Detroit, she installed a dazzling fixture ...