New research explores silicon nanorods in metasurfaces for polarization holographic encryption, addressing image recovery and optical performance challenges.

When particles in volcanic ash cloud rub together, some pick up positive charge and others negative – now physicists have ...

The Structure Arts Sephiroth will stand at about six and a half inches (165mm) tall. He’s an articulated figure that comes with multiple face plates and hand parts for posing. His hair also includes ...

Giant mounds of sand discovered beneath the North Sea off Norway may scramble what we know about a key geological process. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A study published in Nature Communications presents a way to create deployable structures that transform from compact folded states into expansive configurations with perfectly smooth surfaces.

On compression of alpha-cristobalite SiO2 to pressures above approximately 12 GPa, a new polymorph known as cristobalite X-I forms. The existence of cristobalite X-I has been known for several decades ...

Experiments to determine silicate structural species in silicate-saturated aqueous fluids in equilibrium with silica polymorphs (quartz and coesite), enstatite, and enstatite+forsterite in the ...

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A comprehensive review of the literature was conducted, focusing on epidemiological studies that assessed the association between silicosis or SiO2 exposure and CVDs. Specific cardiovascular diseases, ...

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the largest known structure in the universe in terms of length, scientists claim.