Continuing our monthly interview series " Building a Free Internet of the Future ", we spoke with the team behind the ...

A research team has discovered how to finely control Dirac plasmon polaritons in topological insulator metamaterials, ...

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We review the winners of the 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes, from Zebra striped cows to pumping up narcissists, we've got it all!

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Scientists create microscopic gears powered by light, a breakthrough for chip-scale machines—promising, but still far from ...

Synthetic diamond research examines organic molecular interactions under the microscope. Scientists have long developed ...

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Sexually transmitted disease rates for U.S. adults fell last year, but syphilis in newborns continued to rise, according to ...

Encryption technology underpins today's digital world, but trouble may be looming. Practical quantum computers threaten secure communications based on traditional algorithms, and researchers are ...

Nikon has revealed the winners of the 15th annual Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition. The contest recognizes the most dynamic microscopic movies or digital time-lapse photography each year.

Optical tweezers, first demonstrated in the 1980s and awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, use highly focused beams of ...