From the wish-granting jinn of Arabian folklore to the shadow people of Inuit mythology, creatures possessing the fantastical ...

Pictured is a leafhopper G. serpenta. Lin Wang et al. studied the geometric designs of the surface coatings on leafhopper bodies. Leafhoppers produce brochosomes to coat their body surfaces, which are ...

(Nanowerk News) Leafhoppers, a common backyard insect, secrete and coat themselves in tiny mysterious particles that could provide both the inspiration and the instructions for next-generation ...

There’s a well-known story in Plato’s Republic in which a humble shepherd named Gyges finds a magical gold ring that renders whoever wears it invisible. Gyges proceeds to use his newfound power to ...

Scheme of the difference between the SCS and DT detection techniques. a) The SCS is a scalar quantity related to the total scattered power for a given incident direction. The phase of the scattered ...