Structural colors result from interactions between light and nanostructures. Engineering structural colors is a promising, rapidly emerging research field. Compared with conventional painting ...

Polymer thin-film optical cavities boost the magnetic sensing sensitivity of nanodiamond quantum sensors nearly fivefold ...

Metalenses -- flat surfaces that use nanostructures to focus light -- are poised to revolutionize everything from microscopy to cameras, sensors, and displays. But so far, most of the lenses have been ...

Nature may abhor a vacuum, but it sure loves structure. Complex, self-organized assemblies are found throughout the natural world, from double-helix DNA molecules to the photonic crystals that make ...

Scientists at Duke University have created the first invisibility cloak that perfectly hides centimeter-scale objects. While invisibility cloaks have been created before, they have all reflected some ...

“This is potentially enough to build planetary systems larger than our own solar system,” announced Dr. Katie Hesterly of the SKA Observatory, when she revealed the first direct observation of ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing ...

This is the CurveQuad, the mini quadruped robot based on origami. The centimetre-scale device uses curved-crease origami to self-fold, unfold, crawl and steer. This is done using a single motor. It's ...