Heat behaves in predictable ways: a hot cup of coffee cools, a laptop warms your hands, the sun heats Earth. But at scales ...

Metamaterials—the term may sound esoteric to the layman. In science and engineering, however, this is an interesting field of ...

Researchers have developed a design principle enabling the creation of complex patterns on silicon chips by way of microfabrication. Thanks to these patterns, vibrations follow predetermined paths. A ...

Metamaterials are rationally designed macroscopic structures engineered to respond to external excitations in a tailorable and unconventional fashion. This allows them to achieve properties that are ...

Patterned elastic plate guides ultrasonic waves and traps different frequencies at separate bulk locations, enabling compact ...

The development of new so-called metamaterials could lead to dramatic advances in military technology, particularly the ability to hide from sensors—even the human eye. Metamaterials, engineered ...

In the realm of materials science, electromagnetic (EM) metamaterials have emerged as a revolutionary class of engineered composites capable of manipulating electromagnetic waves in ways never before ...

It seems like the stuff of science fiction movies – a cloaking device to make objects invisible, a super lens that can see sharp details far below the wavelength of light. Those are the glamour ...

The Pentagon, China, and Russia are already racing toward aircraft so INSANE they make the brand-new F-47 look like ancient ...

Nanoscale machines expected to have wide application in industry, energy, medicine and other fields may someday operate far more efficiently, thanks to important theoretical discoveries concerning the ...