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Sometimes the universe is just too complicated to analyze. Heck, if you take a tennis ball and toss it across the room, even that is practically too complicated. After it leaves your hand, the ball ...

A new system to generate coherent extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) light has been developed by researchers in Korea. The device, based on a nanostructure made of bow-tie shaped gold “antennas” on a sapphire ...

First proposed over thirty years ago, negative refractive index materials bend light in the opposite direction to ordinary materials. However, they were not demonstrated experimentally until 2000.