The finding offers a rare glimpse into how light and matter interact at the atomic level. When laser light hits these Janus TMDs, it doesn’t just pass through, it exerts a mecha ...

Rice University researchers studying a class of atom-thin semiconductors known as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the most important numbers in the universe ...

Artificial light makes city life possible, but new evidence suggests that exposure to it at night may harm the heart.

As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century, radio waves proved a powerful tool. Scientists could send out radio waves to communicate with satellites, rockets and ...

Shklovsky’s article soon expanded into a widely popular book called “ Universe, Life, Intelligence ,” published in 1962. That same year, the USSR’s Academy of Sciences sent its first radio message in ...

People who work against their internal clock over a long period of time increase the risk of fatty liver. The correlations are complex, but one research team in Bochum is trying to get to the bottom ...

Physicists have uncovered how direct atom-atom interactions can amplify superradiance, the collective burst of light from ...