A revolution in novel nanoparticles and colloidal building blocks has been enabled by recent breakthroughs in particle synthesis. These new particles are poised to become the ‘atoms’ and ‘molecules’ ...

Earth’s inner core has long puzzled scientists because seismic waves move through it unevenly. Compressional waves from ...

Deep inside Earth, researchers see signs that the solid inner core may be arranged in multiple chemical layers far below.

Fluorescence anisotropy is a measurement of how a molecule changes its orientation in space, with respect to the time between absorption and emission events. Absorption and emission are the core ...

In some parts of Earth's interior, seismic waves travel at different speeds depending on the direction in which they are moving through the layers of rock in Earth's interior. This property is known ...

It is critical to always be aware of how material anisotropy might affect a design. A case in point is how anisotropy played a part in an individual getting injured when he tried to loosen the ...

Anisotropy in action: artistic visualization of a propagating heat wave getting weaker as it approaches the top of the layered material, while spreading out in other directions. (Courtesy: ...

In all the theoretical models considered previously, the lag distance h entered as a scalar value. This implies that the correlation between the spatial process at two point pairs P 1,P 2 is dependent ...

A collaborative team has developed a new way to create magnetic optical materials, one that removes a long-standing design bottleneck and could boost ...

Deep beneath our feet, far beyond the reach of drills or submersibles, Earth hides a solid metal heart that behaves in ways geophysicists have struggled to explain. New experiments now suggest that a ...