A mathematical shape famous for covering a surface without ever repeating has revealed an unexpected ability to twist light into unusual chiral patterns. The discovery could lead to new ways of ...

Tiny manufacturing imperfections in optical components normally go unnoticed. Yet they can alter light in surprisingly ...

A paradox that puzzled a generation of solar and atomic physicists – and occasionally pitted theories from one field against the other – has been resolved. The paradox concerns the polarization of ...

Point and shoot: the polarization camera is about two centimetres in diameter and uses a metasurface with an array of nanopillars. (Courtesy: Eliza Grinnell/Harvard SEAS) A compact and simple camera ...

The researchers compared two magnetars with markedly different polarization properties. 1E 2259+586 shows relatively weak phase-averaged X-ray polarization, whereas 1E 1547.0−5408 exhibits a higher ...