Solar panels became a powerful alternative for renewable energy a few years ago. But as technology advances, new alternatives ...

The ESIS-II mission aims to capture high-speed “snapshot” images of the Sun’s transition region and corona. To achieve this, ...

Forget plane-pulled banners ― there may be a new way to advertise in the sky. The Japanese telecom company NTT DOCOMO recently revealed what it claims is the "world's first spherical drone display." ...

Dictionary indexing compares experimental electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) images to a dictionary of generated patterns in oriented space for each orientation on a uniform grid. 1,2 The ...

One of the oldest problems in optics has been solved. Rafael Gonzalez from Mexico's Tecnologico de Monterrey has come up with an almost comically dense equation that can be used to almost completely ...

It’s now about six years since Star Wars: The Force Awakens first showed us the little spherical robot BB-8, but it’s fair to say that along the way we’ve not lost our collective fascination for ...