How electron structure affects light responses in moiré materials

In materials science, if you can understand the "texture" of a material—how its internal patterns form and shift—you can ...
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This 300-light-year cosmic bone is one of the strangest structures ever found in the Milky Way

A long, narrow filament of gas and dust has been identified within the Milky Way, stretching over 300 light-years while ...
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"Exceptional" 5.5-Million-Light-Year-Long Cosmic Structure Appears To Be Rotating, Challenging Current Models Of The Universe

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Framework models light-matter interactions in nonlinear optical microscopy to determine atomic structure

Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a specialized imaging technique that looks for a change in the color of intense ...
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Light Structures, Heavy Footprints? The Environmental Paradox of Lightweight Materials

Rethink architectural lightness as a balance of efficiency, sustainability, and responsibility in the face of global ...
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Revealing the structure of the light-harvesting phycobilisome of cyanobacterium

The structure of the "antenna" that a blue-green alga uses to harvest light has been determined by RIKEN researchers and compared with those of four other species. In addition to providing clues about ...
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Crystal structures light the way to optical microchip

A new class of microscopic crystal structures developed at the University of Toronto is bringing high bandwidth optical microchips one step closer to efficient, large-scale fabrication. The structures ...