It catches very low frequency radio waves made by lightning, solar storms and charged particles moving through Earth’s ...

Something on Pluto and one of Saturn’s moons, Titan, absorbs light in a way unexplained by anything in spectroscopic ...

MXene-polymer bonding lets a thin underwater absorber tune resonance and damping chemically, shifting acoustic control from structure to material chemistry. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Materials that absorb ...

Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey use them to study space weather and its links to Earth’s climate. But for one scientist, the waves are more than just data points — they’re an artistic ...

In a 2023 TED Talk watched by millions of people, the American educator and entrepreneur Sal Khan declared that AI was about to deliver “probably the biggest positive transformation that education has ...

In a recent study, Manish Garg, independent group leader at Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI FKF), succeeded in probing the local properties of bright and dark excitons in the ...

As a graduate student in chemistry, Omar M. Yaghi wondered why making molecules was limited to the traditional ‘shake and bake’ method — mix the ingredients, heat them, and let thermodynamics do the ...

For over four decades, the CU Wizards has engaged and informed children about the wonders of science. Once each month, from September though June, CU Wizards presents a Saturday morning interactive ...

Semiconductor lasers use the optical properties of semiconducting materials to produce coherent light. Electrons and their positive-charge counterpart called holes are injected into an optically ...