Essential cogs in our digitized economies and the development of new technologies, semiconductors and their manufacturing ...

Modern life runs on light. Fiber-optic cables move data across continents, lasers guide surgeries, and photons sit at the ...

Ultrashort laser pulses—that are shorter than a millionth of a millionth of a second—have transformed fundamental science, ...

When two black holes merge or two neutron stars collide, gravitational waves can be generated. They spread at the speed of ...

In a first, researchers from the U.S. and Germany excite Thorium-229 in opaque material, advancing optical nuclear clocks.

A team of researchers now shown that a unique solution in the form of an ultra-thin, flexible, see-through film that can ...

For the 16th consecutive year, Norway was named the most democratic country in the world, with a score of 9.81. New Zealand and Sweden followed. Afghanistan has been the lowest-ranked country since ...

Glass and glass-ceramic systems have long been central to the development of photonics. Their high optical transmittance, tunable refractive indices, and ...