Most space missions rely on chemical rockets for propulsion. Rockets must carry fuel, which increases spacecraft mass and limits their speed and travel distance. For decades, researchers have explored ...

This review outlines the potential of smart microscopy to transform biological imaging through adaptive systems that optimize data collection and image quality.

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

Scientists have successfully tested a material design for light sails using photonic crystals that could achieve 20% the speed of light ...

Blue light, a sheet of filter paper, and a stubborn class of industrial chemicals do not sound like much of a match. Yet that ...

The researchers at Tuskegee University, Alabama, reported their work in the Journal of Nanophotonics, confirming that they developed a photonic crystal light sail designed to address these limitations ...

Most space missions rely on chemical rockets for propulsion. Rockets must carry fuel, which increases spacecraft mass and limits their speed and ...

A new leaf imaging system lets scientists watch plant stomata control water loss and carbon uptake in real time.

An interdisciplinary team of engineers and surgeons at Penn State have created a new class of biomaterial that can better support tissue regeneration. The material — based on a foam-like compound ...

BNNTs are ultrafine tubular only about 5 nanometers in diameter—roughly 1/20,000 the thickness of a human hair—making them extremely light and strong, with excellent thermal neutron absorption ...

Scientists at the University of Tokyo have captured something never seen before: a frame-by-frame view of how electron spins ...