Jun 24, 2025 Scientists control light's direction using polarized beams in 2D materials Researchers use circularly polarized light to control the direction of exciton polaritons in 2D semiconductors, ...

In an elegant fusion of art and science, researchers at Rice University have achieved a major milestone in nanomaterials engineering by uncovering how boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs)—touted for their ...

In the natural world, many things come in mirror-image pairs. Your left and right hands are a perfect example—they look alike but can’t be perfectly superimposed.

According to Professor Taylor, archived cross-polarized light microscopy images could reveal additional samples with intact patches of bone collagen. Researchers may now reanalyze historical fossil ...

News & Views Published: May 2008 Microscopy Polarized high-resolution imaging Stephen Ippolito Nature Photonics 2, 273–274 (2008) Cite this article ...

Chiral plasmonic nanostructures possess a chiroptical response orders of magnitude stronger than that of natural biomolecular systems, making them highly promising for a wide range of biochemical, ...

Astronomers have pulled off an unprecedented feat: detecting ultra-faint light from the Big Bang using ground-based telescopes. This polarized light scattered by the universe's very first stars ...

More information: Katherine A. Parrish et al, Differential absorption of circularly polarized light by a centrosymmetric crystal, Science (2025).