With the help of the world's most powerful X-ray laser, a research team has achieved an important breakthrough: Using the example of the pharmaceutically active substance 2-thiouracil, they applied a ...
Refraction—the bending of light as it passes through different media—has long been constrained by physical laws that prevent independent control over how light waves along different directions bend.
Light isn’t just illuminating materials anymore, it’s moving them. Scientists at Rice University have discovered that beams of light can physically shift atoms in a class of ultra-thin semiconductors ...