What is the Kp index and how does it relate to the Northern Lights?

Predicting when and where the Northern Lights will be visible is a challenging game and can partially be predicted by ...
Scientific American

How to Catch a Rare Comet and a Meteor Shower

A comet discovered earlier this year, now just bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, is poised to be among the top ...
Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering

The Importance of Finding a Positive “Mirror Effect”

At an Oct. 9 event presented by the Personal Development StudioLab, Sheila Gujrathi implored students to follow their ...

Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed

Super short X-ray pulses help scientists study materials at the atomic level. Researchers found that certain lasing effects ...

Boron isotopes reveal how nuclear waste glass slowly dissolves over time

A new study has uncovered how tiny differences in boron atoms can help scientists better predict the long-term behavior of ...

How we sharpened the James Webb telescope’s vision from a million kilometres away

It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...
Healio

Neuropathic eye pain: Eye pain in the absence of abnormality

It is time for us to address neuropathic eye pain.We can think of neuropathic eye pain (NEP) as the more general, more ...
IEEE

Tunable Electromagnetically Induced Transparency-Like in Graphene metasurfaces and its Application as a Refractive Index Sensor

Abstract: We present numerical and theoretical analysis of the tunable electromagnetically induced transparency-like (EIT-like) effect based on graphene metasurfaces. The unit cells of metasurfaces ...