Ultrathin structures that can bend, focus, or filter light, metasurfaces are reshaping how scientists think about optics.

A study led by Politecnico di Milano, recently published in Nature Photonics, highlights the crucial role of virtual charges in insulating materials. One of the biggest challenges in modern physics an ...

In the three decades since CERN made Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web freely and openly available to everyone, we’ve got used to exchanging extraordinary amounts of data. One way of keeping up with ...

Current photonic advances impact our lives in many ways, from improving our health and well-being to transforming how we work and communicate. In this framework, nonlinear integrated photonics, which ...

When two lattices with distinct angles or periodicities come together, they conjure a moiré superlattice — a realm where astonishing phenomena like superconductivity and optical solitons spring to ...

Photonics startup PINC Technologies has secured $6.8 million from a Seed funding round. The round was led by Quantonation, a ...

A new optical technique lets scientists control topological solitons in ferroelectric materials, paving the way for ...

A team of physicists has discovered that virtual charges, which exist only during brief interactions with light, play a ...

A team of scientists from the University of Chicago, the University of California Berkeley, Argonne National Laboratory, and ...

In the era of instant data exchange and growing risks of cyberattacks, scientists are seeking secure methods of transmitting ...

Rochester Institute of Technology will begin offering a new Ph.D. in the fall of 2024 that is designed to prepare graduates to extend the frontiers of fundamental scientific knowledge and develop new ...

Physics is the study of the underlying laws and mechanisms explaining how the universe works. Most of what we do in daily life is based on a principle or law of physics—dealing with forces, motion, ...