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Electromagnetic chirality: From fundamentals to nontraditional chiroptical phenomena
Theoretical frameworks of chiroptical properties of electromagnetic materials and fields are reviewed. Based on these fundamentals,…
Regional variations in freshwater overconsumption
Freshwater—which falls to the earth as precipitation or exists beneath the surface as groundwater—is desperately needed…
Paper ballots, risk-limiting audits can help defend elections and democracy, study finds
With just over two months before the 2020 election, three professors at the Indiana University Kelley…
Strong fields and ultrafast motions—how to generate and steer electrons in liquid water
Water molecules undergo ultrafast dithering motions at room temperature and generate extremely strong electric fields in…
A new way of modulating color emissions from transparent films
Scientists are looking at luminescent transparent films for use in energy-efficient displays (such as LED screens)…
Coronavirus: Technology helps teachers rethink distanced learning
Every teacher knows and dreads it: the look of a bored student. This school year, with…
Continuous and stable lasing achieved from low-cost perovskites at room temperature
An international team of researchers led by Kyushu University and Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese…
Study details how general anesthetics and 'benzos' act on receptors in the brain
As you drift into unconsciousness before a surgery, general anesthetic drugs flowing through your blood are…
Engineers reprogram yeast cells to become microscopic drug factories
Since antiquity, cultures on nearly every continent have discovered that certain plant leaves, when chewed or…