Researchers in China recently uncovered a quantum-inspired rule governing how sound is scattered by certain physical ...

Heat behaves in predictable ways: a hot cup of coffee cools, a laptop warms your hands, the sun heats Earth. But at scales ...

Scientists used nanoscale gold metamaterials to supercharge heat transfer across tiny gaps, achieving up to four times more energy flow than similar conventional systems. The breakthrough could lead ...

Metamaterials—the term may sound esoteric to the layman. In science and engineering, however, this is an interesting field of ...

Patterned elastic plate guides ultrasonic waves and traps different frequencies at separate bulk locations, enabling compact ...

Metamaterials are rationally designed macroscopic structures engineered to respond to external excitations in a tailorable and unconventional fashion. This allows them to achieve properties that are ...

The development of new so-called metamaterials could lead to dramatic advances in military technology, particularly the ability to hide from sensors—even the human eye. Metamaterials, engineered ...

From sci-fi fantasy to lab reality, metamaterials are bringing invisibility closer than ever. These engineered structures bend light, sound, and heat around objects, erasing their presence. While full ...

In the realm of materials science, electromagnetic (EM) metamaterials have emerged as a revolutionary class of engineered composites capable of manipulating electromagnetic waves in ways never before ...

It seems like the stuff of science fiction movies – a cloaking device to make objects invisible, a super lens that can see sharp details far below the wavelength of light. Those are the glamour ...

Given a 3D piece of origami, can you flatten it without damaging it? Just by looking at the design, the answer is hard to predict, because each and every fold in the design has to be compatible with ...