Polar has unveiled a new version of its Loop fitness tracker aimed at women, complete with Swarovski crystals. The new fitness tracker is emblazoned with 30 stones, which are placed into the bezel ...

Preliminary studies of the highly polar organic molecule DIO revealed a mysterious liquid crystal phase between the nematic and ferroelectric nematic phases. X-ray diffraction studies showed that this ...

Tel Aviv University research reveals two-dimensional crystals exhibiting a unique control of distinct electric potential steps by sliding atomically thin layers against each other. The consecutive, ...

Scientists of the Nano-Photonics Group at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry have developed a new infrared-optical nanotechnology based on the excitation of lattice vibrations in polar crystals ...

Laser engineers could one day buy made-to-order polar crystals for second-harmonic generation (SHG) thanks to research at the University of Minnesota, US (Science 294 1907). A group from the Chemical ...

The polar vortex that has brought deadly cold and record-breaking low temperatures to the Midwest has also resulted in beautiful solar phenomena – sundogs. According to the National Weather Service, ...

Self-healing at 77 K reveals a crystal-based mechanism that does not rely on molecular diffusion ...

The colours in this newly discovered phase of liquid crystal shift as researchers apply a small electric field. Credit: SMRC Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have become the first to ...