Scientists have long used Gaussian beams to study how light interacts with matter. These beams resemble plane waves and rely ...

Controlled Pneumatics combines proportional technology, sensors and control algorithms into a closed-loop control system.

As their name suggests, nanocrystals are tiny particles. These particles are crystalline elements with at least one dimension smaller than 1,000 nanometres, where a nanometre is one thousand-millionth ...

Researchers from RMIT University and the University of Melbourne have discovered that water generates an electrical charge up ...

Imagine a microscopic locomotive moving back and forth along a track, propelling itself without any external force. At the ...

New research is reshaping our understanding of one of nature’s most stunning yet destructive phenomena —  massive swarms of desert locusts.

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This study makes the fundamental discovery of the first natural animal rhodopsin that uses a chloride ion instead of an amino acid side chain as a counterion. Using a combination of biochemical and ...

Quantum physics is the study of matter and energy at its most fundamental level. A central tenet of quantum physics is that energy comes in indivisible packets called quanta. Quanta behave very ...