Bridging the gap between the cosmic microwave background and the first galaxies
One of the Holy Grails in cosmology is a look back at the earliest epochs of cosmic history. Unfortunately, the universe's ...
Fast Radio Bursts Explained? Scientists Zero In on Their Mysterious Origins
A research team led by McGill identifies neutron stars as the likely source of fast radio bursts, one of the universe's most ...
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Polarization in the US is fueling a new wave of reliable, authentic influencers
Polarized America is not new. But, like many things, it has been accelerated by the 2020 Presidential elections, and further magnified by other developments – notably, the Black Lives Matter movement ...
Additional phase factor provides new insights into the behavior of random light
Led by researchers at the University of Eastern Finland, a recent study demonstrates that random light acquires an additional ...
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Polarization Camera Views The Invisible
Light polarization is an interesting phenomenon that is extremely useful in many situations… but human eyes are blind to detecting any polarization. Luckily, [David] has built a polarization ...
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Spin-controlled generation of a complete polarization set with randomly interleaved plasmonic metasurfaces
By rotating the half-wave plate in 45° increments, a geometric phase gradient is produced, separating the reflection angles of light with the same polarization state as the incident circularly ...