Brain tissue is an optical mess. Water, lipids, and tangled cellular membranes all bend light in different directions. If ...

Physicists found a bizarre quantum state in graphene where electrons flow like a liquid and defy basic conduction rules ...

One of the most commonly referred to examples of nonclassical behavior at a quantum scale is the double slit experiment, ...

When you throw a ball in the air, the equations of classical physics will tell you exactly what path the ball will take as it ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford, Queen’s University Belfast, and global partners used the Gemini laser to "compress ...

And then we drive this very cylindrical-looking, saucer-shaped device out in the middle of the night, in the rain Chris Polly ...

Researchers have found that a swirling water vortex can force opposing waves to form rotating lines of stillness across an ...

Through his research on carbon nanotubes, Professor Sumio Iijima redefined nanoscience, illustrating the importance of ...

The Biophysics Collaborative Access Team (BioCAT)—led by Illinois Institute of Technology faculty Thomas Irving, Professor of ...

A single gold nanorod, far smaller than a wavelength of visible light, can be coaxed into emitting circularly polarized ...

Researchers have shown that surprisingly large metal particles can behave according to quantum mechanics, existing in ...

The value is a new record for metallic materials, and the team goes so far as saying that it is redefining how heat transfer ...