Having the right camouflage on the front line can make a huge difference. If our soldiers are able to detect and locate an ...

The Stanford team created a metasurface from a polymer previously used in solar panels and printable electronics. They found ...

You will be redirected to our submission process. Buildings play a central role in today’s energy and environmental challenges. Heating, cooling, and hot water consumption make them one of the largest ...

To overcome the lack of wavelength-selective extraction in existing on-chip metasurfaces, Chinese scientists developed a novel approach by leveraging a nonlocal on-chip design based on symmetry-broken ...

Important everyday products—from plastics to detergents—are made through chemical reactions that mostly use precious metals such as platinum as catalysts. Scientists have been searching for more ...

Some octopuses have incredible camouflaging abilities. Victor Micallef via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Octopuses and cuttlefish are sneaky sea creatures. To hide from predators and surprise ...

Chiral metasurfaces can strongly twist the polarization of light, but how this process unfolds in space and time has been unclear. Scientists in China have now used ultrafast electron microscopy and ...

Octopus and cuttlefish are masters of disguise. Many species can rapidly change both the color and the texture of their skin – an ability that scientists have long sought to replicate with synthetic ...

BERLIN, Md. - A souvenir penny from Berlin may look like a simple keepsake, but it now represents a bigger shift happening at cash registers nationwide. The U.S. Mint has ended production of the ...

A panel of seven images with a scale of 100 μm shows a surface gradually changing from solid orange through pink, purple with pink dots, and green with purple dots to a final pattern of green dots on ...