NASA catches the dissipation of Tropical Cyclone Claudia

Tropical Cyclone Claudia was dissipating in the Southern Indian Ocean when NASA’s Terra satellite captured a…

Colloidal quantum dot photodetectors can now see further than before

Optical sensing in the mid to long infrared (5 microns [um]) is becoming of utmost importance…

Complex, porous, chiral nano-patterns arise from a simple linear building blocks

Nanoscience can arrange minute molecular entities into nanometric patterns in an orderly manner using self-assembly protocols.…

What's MER? It's a way to measure quantum materials, and it's telling us new and interesting things

Experimental physicists have combined several measurements of quantum materials into one in their ongoing quest to…

Organized cybercrime—not your average mafia

Does the common stereotype for “organized crime” hold up for organizations of hackers? Research from Michigan…

New optical technique captures real-time dynamics of cement setting

Researchers have developed a nondestructive and noninvasive optical technique that can determine the setting times for…

Attentiveness and trust are especially effective in combating juvenile crime

Although coming from a disadvantaged background, experiencing violence within the family, having a negative school environment…

Banking on a new community isotope database

Stable isotopes act like fingerprints or fibers in forensics, capturing details of where someone or something…

'Living fossil' may upend basic tenet of evolutionary theory

The field of evolutionary biology has seen its share of spirited debates. But if there’s one…

An electrically pumped surface-emitting semiconductor green laser

Scientists and Engineers have used surface-emitting semiconductor lasers in data communications, for sensing, in FaceID and…