The direction in which the electromagnetic field of circularly polarized light rotates can be easily reversed by applying a ...

Light can carry angular momentum in two distinct ways. One comes from polarization, which describes how the electric field ...

Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us.

For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by strange “zebra stripe” patterns in radio waves from the Crab Pulsar — bright bands separated by complete darkness. Now, new research suggests the answer ...

Ammon News - Chinese scientists claim to have created the long theorized hexagonal diamond, stronger than the real thing, and only found until now at sites of meteorite impacts. The commonly found ...

Highly skilled mountaineers known in Nepal as "icefall doctors" have begun fixing ropes and ladders on Mount Everest to prepare for the coming spring climbing season, officials said Wednesday. The ...

Scientists created a pure hexagonal diamond in the lab, confirming a long-debated carbon structure slightly harder than natural diamonds.

Diamonds are famous for their strength, but scientists have long suspected that another form of diamond might be even harder.

A research team led by Sun Jian at Nanjing University has produced recoverable, millimeter-sized crystals of hexagonal diamond, a rare carbon polymorph that prior theoretical work has suggested could ...

Abstract: Separating diffraction patterns helps in providing detailed information on geological structures. However, the amplitude of weak diffraction is difficult to preserve and often destroyed ...

Chinese scientists claim to have created the long theorised hexagonal diamond, stronger than the real thing, and only found until now at sites of meteorite impacts. The commonly found cubic diamond is ...

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