Thousands of solar tornadoes swirl above the sun’s surface at any given moment. These remarkable photos give us a glimpse at these stunning cosmic phenomena.

Shading brings 3D forms to life, beautifully carving out the shape of objects around us. Despite the importance of shading ...

Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

I’ve been camping my whole life, but only started shopping at REI when I was in college and wanted to invest in my first backpacking backpack. When I saw the dozens of racks lined with technical packs ...

An optical isolator for transverse electric (TE) polarized light is demonstrated by adhesive bonding of a ferrimagnetic garnet die on top of a 380 nm thick silicon waveguide circuit. Polarization ...

An astronomer led an international study mapping galaxy clusters, and it was published Monday in The Astrophysical Journal ...

Excitons—bound pairs of electrons and an electron hole—are quasiparticles that can arise in solids. While so-called "bright" ...

SPHEREx is scanning the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, beaming weekly data to a public archive so scientists and citizen ...

An extended day in the sun can be anything but relaxing for those who develop polymorphous light eruption, an uncomfortable, ...

A new study challenges the notion that society is as polarized as many believe, revealing that perceptions of division often stem from the consensus within one’s own social circles.

Angular reflection spectra of 1D arrays of grooves in a metal film in the Kretschmann configuration has been studied numerically. The case of a wave incident in the plane parallel to the grooves has ...