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Optics & Photonics Feb 22, 2019

Engineering wave reflections with power flow-conformal metamirrors

Metasurfaces are two-dimensional (2-D) metamaterials that can control scattering waves of a light beam. Their applications include thin-sheet polarizers, beam splitters, beam steerers and lenses. These structures can control ...

Other Feb 7, 2019

For the love of technology! Sex robots and virtual reality

Sex as we know it is about to change.

Optics & Photonics Feb 7, 2019

Âé¶¹ÒùÔºicists take big step in nanolaser design

Lasers are widely used in household appliances, medicine, industry, telecommunications and more. Several years ago, scientists introduced nanolasers. Their design is similar to that of the conventional semiconductor lasers ...

Space Exploration Jan 10, 2019

Chang'e 4: Why the moon's far side looks red in new images

The first ever images taken from the surface of the far side of the moon have been released following the Chinese National Space Administration's (CNSA) successful landing there. The lander Chang'e 4 and rover Yutu 2 follow ...

Consumer & Gadgets Sep 28, 2018

IPhone XS and XS Max review: Apple's beautiful big-screen beasts exact a small ransom

The radical changes came with the iPhone X last year. So, while the elegant new iPhone XS Max that I've been testing since Wednesday (along with the XS) has, by far, the largest display and is the most expensive and best ...

Mathematics Sep 25, 2018

A unitary theory of metric analysis helps unveil structures within data

As the EU-funded MANET project worked with abstract geometric structures it was able to model a range of phenomena as integral curves of vector fields. This allowed the project to shed light on retinal vessels and cortical ...

Internet Sep 20, 2018

Why do so many people fall for fake profiles online?

The first step in conducting online propaganda efforts and misinformation campaigns is almost always a fake social media profile. Phony profiles for nonexistent people worm their way into the social networks of real people, ...

Social Sciences Sep 6, 2018

Four ways to defend democracy and protect every voter's ballot

As voters prepare to cast their ballots in the November midterm elections, it's clear that U.S. voting is under electronic attack. Russian government hackers probed some states' computer systems in the runup to the 2016 presidential ...

Optics & Photonics Aug 29, 2018

Light programmable guidance of direct current fields in Laplacian metadevices

To enable negative refraction and related optical illusions, metamaterials are artificially engineered with unique properties that result from their internal physical structures, rather than their chemical composition. The ...

Engineering Jul 9, 2018

Armband mimics a person's touch

Imagine a virtual world where someone touches your arm during a conversation and you feel the sensation as though they were with you.

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