People love the rainbow of ROYGBIV colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Human eyes perceive visible light as this array of colors. You may notice that some colors you can ...

An international team of researchers has found that a thin coating of MXene -- a type of two-dimensional nanomaterial -- could enhance a material's ability to trap or shed heat. The discovery, which ...

Neuroscientists and materials scientists have created contact lenses that enable infrared vision in both humans and mice by converting infrared light into visible light. (Nanowerk News) ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Michael J. Murdoch, Rochester Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Advertisement ...