Argonne and Northwestern University scientists teamed up to understand how light interacts with metallic nanoframes, with ...

A single flat metalens now handles both excitation and fluorescence collection for diamond quantum sensors, enabling nanoscale sensing in spaces too tight for conventional optics. (Nanowerk Spotlight) ...

Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, winners of this year’s Turing Award, spent their lives touting the advantages of the ...

A recent breakthrough reported by Argonne National Laboratory in the United States has provided ...

Physicists have found that this strange, newly discovered quantum behavior has nothing to do with the electrons themselves ...

Astrid Eichhorn spends her days thinking about how the laws of physics change at the tiniest scales. Imagine zooming in closer and closer to the device on which you’re reading this article. Its ...

Narwhal-shaped wavefunctions describe a unique way of confining light to extremely small spaces. The mode volume measures how ...

The direction in which the electromagnetic field of circularly polarized light rotates can be easily reversed by applying a ...

The electrons that power our society flow left and right through the circuitry in our electronics, back and forth along the ...

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have, for the first time, measured the temporal and spectral shape ...

A new breakthrough is transforming MXenes—ultra-thin, high-tech materials—into something far more powerful and precise.