A research team has developed a new way to measure and predict how plant leaves scatter and reflect light, revealing that ...

Researchers developed a solar collector with a dielectric Bragg mirror, optimizing energy conversion by separating sunlight ...

Astrophysicists are starting to treat a strange class of “undead” suns as potential tools rather than mere curiosities, ...

A quantum trick based on interferometric measurements allows a team of researchers at LMU to detect even the smallest ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

By combining a custom-built optical instrument with physics-based modeling and machine learning, the study shows that leaf-level optical properties ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...

The former, a repurposed Electrolux facility, went online in September 2024, only 122 days after construction began. The ...

Condensed-matter physics is the study of substances in their solid state. This includes the investigation of both crystalline solids in which the atoms are positioned on a repeating three-dimensional ...

The museum's exit is hidden behind a shipment container close to the main staircase. The container should be highlighted when using your scanner—open it and lead Myers through the subway tunnels.

A physicist has proposed a bold experiment that could allow gravitational waves to be manipulated using laser light. By ...

Particle physics is the study of the elementary building blocks of matter and radiation and their interaction. The fundamental particles are summarised by the standard model. This includes leptons ...