(Nanowerk Spotlight) The development of materials that can reliably bridge the physical gap between humans and machines has remained a significant challenge in modern technology. As human-machine ...

A Penn State team has shattered Kirchhoff’s 165-year-old law of thermal radiation. Their engineered metamaterial emits more ...

Artist impression of the bosonic Kitaev chain: multiple mechanical string resonators are linked to form a chain using light. Mechanical vibrations (sound waves) are transported and amplified along the ...