Imagine that plants could tell us exactly when they're stressed, infected, or being eaten by insects, by lighting up. A new ...

Reverberant sounds made in an empty environment are the result of sound waves bouncing off hard, flat surfaces, as governed by basic principles of the.

At first glance, the soap foam appears to be quite simple: it is light, airy, and most often white. However, there is a great deal going on behind the.

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created a new and unusual state of matter—known as a supersolid—by ...

The Putnam Museum and Science Center invites visitors to step inside a dazzling world of color, light, and reflection with the opening of Kaleidoscope Odyssey, a vibrant new exhibit debuting ...

But when sunshine and rain occur together, the conditions are just right for a rainbow to appear. Light refracts within a ...

Our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago near the crowded center of the Milky Way and then migrated roughly 10,000 light-years ...

The development of clean and low-cost solar photovoltaic technology is crucial for the global transition toward carbon ...

Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine and Host of Strange Health podcast, The Conversation David Schwartzman receives funding from the Medical Research Council (UKRI083) and was partly supported by ...

Two-dimensional semiconductors such as monolayer tungsten disulfide (WS₂) are promising materials for nonlinear and quantum photonics, but their atomic thickness severely limits how strongly they ...

Researchers have found a way to mimic lightspeed when photographing an object. The method involves stitching together many thin “slices” of light reflecting off the object. Photography—itself a ...