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Bird Feathers Inspire Researchers to Produce Vibrant New…

A Nagoya University-led research team mimics the rich color of bird plumage and demonstrates new ways to control how light interacts with materials. [caption id="attachment_12250" align="alignnone" width="1240"] Bio-inspired bright structurally colored colloidal amorphous array enhanced…

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Unpolarized single-photon generation with true randomness from diamond

The Tohoku University research group of Professor Keiichi Edamatsu and Postdoctoral fellow Naofumi Abe has demonstrated dynamically and statically unpolarized single-photon generation using diamond. [caption id="attachment_12244" align="alignnone" width="629"] Schematic picture of unpolarized single-photon generation using…

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Looking into the Cheops telescope tube

[caption id="attachment_12241" align="alignright" width="383"] Credit: University of Bern / T. Beck[/caption] Seen here is a Cheops team member reflected in the satellite’s main mirror, and framed by the black internal surface of the telescope tube.…