Altermagnets are a newly recognized class of antiferromagnets whose magnetic structure behaves very differently from what is ...

Polarized light is one of the most powerful tools scientists have for peering inside matter, yet the way it twists, scatters ...

A new imaging technique uses circularly polarised light to visualise chiral structures, improving analysis of biological samples, materials, and active substances. (Nanowerk News) Why do spearmint and ...

Important instruments for neuroscience and medical diagnostics, optically pumped magnetometers measure responses of polarized atoms to produce information about the low-frequency external field. They ...

The photo showed the first image in polarized light of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. However, it was not the first-ever image of the astronomical object. That was ...