These are a bit like hotels for chemicals, said Heiner Linke, who chairs the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. Or perhaps self-assembling houses, added Olof Ramstrom, another committee member. Or the ...

When the Biden administration announced in late March a $128 million initiative to improve the costs of solar power, a significant chunk of the money went to research into materials named after an ...

Research published in Science Advances, reported on by Tech Xplore, explained that researchers at China's Southeast ...

A new study reveals that spontaneous emission, a key phenomenon in the interaction between light and atoms, manifests in a ...

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Physicists in Finland are the latest scientists to create “time crystals,” a newly discovered phase of matter that exists only at tiny atomic scales and extremely low temperatures but also seems to ...

The Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Light is one of over 80 Max Planck Institutes worldwide and is engaged in basic research. It covers a broad research spectrum, including nonlinear optics, ...

As light shines steadily on a silver slip of a fish, minuscule dots on the fish start flashing: blue, yellow, blue, yellow. The bodies “do not glow like luminous fish,” Masakazu Iwasaka, an ...

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