New 2D material manipulates light with remarkable precision and minimal loss

Phys.org— Responding to the increasing demand for efficient, tunable optical materials capable of precise light modulation to create greater bandwidth in communication networks and advanced optical systems, a team of researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi's Photonics Research Lab (PRL) have developed a novel, two-dimensional (2D) material capable of manipulating light with exceptional precision and minimal loss.

Phys.org—New class of spongy materials can self-assemble into precisely controllable structures. A team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has drawn inspiration from a wide variety of natural geometric motifs—including those of 12-sided dice and potato chips—in order to extend a set of well-known design principles to an entirely new class of spongy materials that can self-assemble into precisely controllable structures.

AiPT!—Dark Horse sheds new light on Mike Mignola’s new shared universe ‘Curious Objects’. 'Curious Objects' kicks off with 'Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown' this December.

Phys.org—ALICE gets the green light for new subdetectors. Two detector upgrades of ALICE, the dedicated heavy-ion physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), have recently been approved for installation during the next long shutdown of the LHC, which will take place from 2026 to 2028. The first one is an upgrade of the innermost three layers of the Inner Tracking System (ITS3), and the second is a new forward calorimeter (FoCal), optimized for photon detection in the forward direction of the ALICE detector.