BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - In the midst of a foggy Thursday morning, an arc of white stretched above the horizon, catching the eye ...

In 1967 the Russian physicist Victor Veselago predicted the existence of a material with a negative index of refraction, which he termed “left-handed.” He concluded that in the presence of such a ...

Time-varying systems, materials with properties that change over time, have opened new possibilities for the experimental manipulation of waves. Contrarily to static systems, which exhibit the same ...

Many of our viewers have noticed rainbow clouds over the past few days. This is actually a rare phenomenon called "cloud iridescence". This happens when sunlight is diffracted off of tiny water ...

A new study led by DAI Qing’s team from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Javier Abajo from the Institute of Photonic Sciences ...

A new kind of “superlens”, capable of focusing light to a spot far smaller than its own wavelength, could be far easier to build than other proposed designs, researchers say. Traditional lenses are ...