Scientists at Harvard have built a miniature device that can twist and tune light in real time. By rotating two stacked photonic crystals and adjusting their spacing with a tiny mechanical system, ...

A clear visualization of a circularly polarized electromagnetic wave and how the electric and magnetic fields rotate in space ...

City Hall in Medford, Mass. Addressing tangible needs keeps local leaders focused on specific problems, not ideological debates. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald/TNS) But things are much less heated at the ...

People often blame social media algorithms that prioritize extreme content for increasing political polarization, but this effect has been difficult to prove. Only the platform owners have access to ...

Americans are more politically divided today than we’ve ever been. You’ve probably heard that, not only because it’s true, but because it’s meaningful in all kinds of contexts: online, at the polls, ...

Lauren Hall is a Distinguished Fellow for the Study of Liberalism and a Free Society with the Institute for Humane Studies. She was previously a Pluralism Fellow with the Mercatus Center. But things ...

Americans have increasingly argued about when—and why—the U.S. has become sopolitically divided. Was polarization a slow burn stretching back decades, or a sudden rupture tied to more recent events? A ...

Forget Donald Trump. A new analysis suggests the U.S. public’s sharp lurch into polarization began in 2008, years before his first presidential campaign. Researchers at the University of Cambridge’s ...

If you are leasing a car, what’s the point of paying thousands of dollars due at lease signing? My contract says tax, title, fees and licensing — but then wouldn’t I have to pay that again at the end ...

One Sunday, Ryan Burge looked out over his Mount Vernon, Illinois, church as the pianist played the service’s prelude. The American Baptist part-time pastor counted nine people in the sanctuary, ...

Ilia Murtazashvili does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

More local officials than ever say in a new survey that political polarization is having a negative impact nationally, with those in larger communities seeing greater local effects — findings that ...