By leveraging the concept of chirality, or the difference of a shape from its mirror image, EPFL scientists have engineered ...

Shine on: how do materials emit polarized light? Many materials emit light in ways that encode information in its polarization. According to researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne ...

Calcium Oxalate Found in many genera of plants, calcium oxalate is a water-insoluble salt that forms bundles of needlelike crystals called raphides. Contact with moisture causes plant cells to ...

For the first time, astronomers have used a ground-based telescope to observe polarized microwave light from the universe's earliest epoch.

While auras may come from the realm of pseudoscience, all living beings do emit a faint light, invisible to the human eye—one that is extinguished upon death. This is the conclusion of a team of ...

The insect Anomala albopilosa has an exoskeleton that reflects circularly polarized light. Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have coated the surface of its exoskeleton with an ...

What are polarized sunglasses and how do they work? Simply put, polarized lenses filter light to reduce glare from surfaces like water, glass, asphalt, and metal.

Methods: An in vitro rat calcium oxalate kidney stone model was established through the co-cultivation of calcium oxalate monohydrate (COM) with NRK-52E cells, while an in vivo model was constructed ...

Controlling magnetism with polarized light: Non-thermal pathway uses inverse Faraday effect by Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FVB) ...

Polarized light yields fresh insight into mysterious fast radio bursts Scientists looked at how polarization changed direction to learn more about origins.