Eight days ago, it rained over the western Pacific Ocean near Japan. There was nothing especially remarkable about this rain event, yet it made big waves twice. First, it disturbed the atmosphere in ...

For decades, scientists have wondered how the Sun’s outer atmosphere — the corona — burns millions of degrees hotter than its surface. A new study led by Northumbria University physicist Richard ...

Bloch surface waves (BSWs) in photonic crystals represent an innovative class of electromagnetic surface states confined at the interface between a dielectric multilayer and an ambient medium. By ...