In a first for the field, materials scientists from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois ...

Helical liquid crystals can reverse the 'handedness' of light through the application of ultralow electric fields.

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A screen of poultry farm effluent and slaughterhouse wastewater has identified a bacteriophage that could tackle Salmonella ...

Olivine, the most common mineral in the upper 400 km (about 250 miles) of Earth’s interior, has long been studied for how it deforms. Scientists have identified two primary directions of dislocation ...

Jacobs School researchers have shown how an electron diffraction technique can quickly and efficiently create high-resolution ...

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

The Death & Life of Lamar Odom, the former NBA player's ex-wife Khloe Kardashian describes the lengths she went to protect ...

A dark point inside a wave of light sounds like a contradiction. It is also something researchers say they have now viewed in ...