From space hotels and artificial meteor showers, to a new giant mirror that reflects sunlight to Earth — low-Earth orbit is ...

A start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for ...

The FCC says the most controversial aspect of Reflect Orbital's Earendil-1 satellite, its giant mirror, falls outside its ...

Back in July 2025, Reflect Orbital submitted an application to launch Eärendil-1, a demonstration satellite designed to test ...

Researchers developed penguin-inspired Cu@SiO2 nanohelices that protect LiDAR windows by combining sunlight-driven ...

The MSP group is recognised worldwide in the development of multi-scale and coarse-graining methodologies and their application to condensed matter systems. The group has made significant ...

When watching a football game-whether on television or in a stadium-one detail often stands out: the field looks like it has two shades of green. The alternating light and dark green stripes across ...

Seaweed growing along the world’s coastlines could help to inspire new materials. Millions of years of evolution have shaped how seaweeds control light and colour, which could offer new approaches for ...

Sketch of an SiPM cross-section describing the three different cases of cross-talk. Direct cross-talk directly traverses SPAD borders and trenches (dark blue) and triggers an avalanche in the ...

The start-up Gixel is taking a new approach to building glasses for augmented reality (AR). Instead of further developing existing display technologies such as birdbath optics and waveguides, Gixel ...