"This is one more example of how the everyday ordinary world is full of wonders, if we only choose to see carefully." ...

With the involvement of scientists from the Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics in Berlin and the Universities of Augsburg and Münster, international researchers have presented a new ...

A stellar explosion with subtle hints of a black hole binary in the background. (Courtesy: Carl Knox, OzGrav – Swinburne ...

An interface between media with different helicities (red and blue curly arrows) supports zero-helicity linearly polarized surface modes (green arrow). (Credit: Konstantin Bliokh) Maxwell’s ...

Light's behavior seems counterintuitive. That is, until you figure out light is a wave. The way light behaves can seem very counterintuitive, and many physicists would agree with that, but once you ...

A Harvard study shows that soft materials, like gels and biological tissue, support boat wake-like surface waves. Because wake shape encodes material properties, th ...

The application of surface acoustic waves is widespread. The spectrum ranges from modern communication technologies, for example wireless data ...