How will defects in the material improve the capabilities of satellites and help create new flexible microelectronics devices?

Now a UK-based team of scientists have developed a new platform for the generation and detection of ultrashort UV-C laser pulses on femtosecond timescales. They say that this achievement “could unlock ...

In the future, substances can be identified by miniature devices based on metalenses – Photonics project paves the way for sustainable measurement ...

The African berry Pollia condensata achieves a brilliant, metallic blue without pigments, using microscopic structures that ...

As a graduate student in the 1980s, Yann LeCun had trouble finding an adviser for his PhD thesis on machine learning – ...

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest ...

A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult ...

Four consortia within the Perspectief programme that include Leiden researchers have received funding to start their research projects. These projects ...

The Reality Check: Broadcom is a platform because it sells 40% Software (VMware) and 30% Chips. Astera Labs is 99% Chips with ...

In physical systems, transport takes many forms, such as electric current through a wire, heat through metal, or even water through a pipe. Each of these flows can be described by how easily the ...

Shattered glass does not leap back into your hand. Smoke from a match does not gather itself and crawl back inside. In ...