At 416 nanometers, the solar surface is dominated by granules, the convection cells that carry heat from the interior.

Solar vortex discovery by DKIST scientists confirms that Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities blanket the Sun’s visible surface, ...

The nonrepeating Smith hat tile created twisting, pinwheel-like light patterns that ordinary quasicrystals do not produce.

Aperiodic Einstein tile nanostructure produces chiral diffraction pattern under laser light, reported in Nature ...

Researchers have found that an aperiodic structure based on ‘Smith hat’ showed different diffraction behaviors from those ...

A shape that captured worldwide attention for solving a decades-old mathematical puzzle has returned to the spotlight. While ...

Museums, libraries, archives and heritage organizations face a difficult problem: Many of the objects they preserve are made from materials that naturally deteriorate.

Researchers from Tsinghua University have developed a new angle-resolved analysis method for ultrafast liquid electron diffraction, offering a route to retrieve more complete three-dimensional ...

MIT physicists have built a powerful new microscope that uses terahertz light to uncover hidden quantum motions inside superconductors. By compressing this normally unwieldy light into a tiny region, ...

Chemistry textbooks explain how reactions start and end, but they rarely show what happens in between. Seeing these hidden moments matters because chemistry is ultimately governed by quantum rules. By ...

Researchers at Tsinghua University developed the Optical Feature Extraction Engine (OFE2), an optical engine that processes data at 12.5 GHz using light rather than electricity. Its integrated ...

They say seeing is believing but our understanding of chemical systems predominantly depends on second-hand observations and measurements. A colour change can suggest that a reaction has occurred, NMR ...