Ocean Optics reports on how spectroscopy revolutionizes research by utilizing light to analyze materials, improving accuracy ...

Two inexpensive commercial materials store solar energy as electrons and release hydrogen fuel on demand in darkness, requiring no external power and setting a new performance record.

The Quantaurus-QY C13534-11 spectrometer from Hamamatsu Photonics is built to measure the spontaneous absolute value of emission quantum yield by employing the photoluminescence technique. The ...

A new satellite called Sentinel 5A has started sending back its first images, capturing fresh views of Earth's ozone hole.

The world's most expensive infrared spectrometer - the James Webb Space Telescope - is unearthing extraordinary exoplanet chemistry. James Mitchell Crow looks to the skies ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is giving planetary scientists something they almost never get: a fresh sample of material from another star system, lit up in ultraviolet like a forensic lamp on a crime ...

The project has now succeeded in creating a method where polymerization can be driven by visible light, thanks to specially designed monomers developed by the researchers. This visible light ...

A research team reveals that sunlight, especially ultraviolet (UV) radiation, actively transforms microplastics into a distinct and chemically ...

Controlling light at dimensions thousands of times smaller than the thickness of a human hair is one of the pillars of modern ...

A multilayered semiconductor acting as an optical sensor opens the way to miniaturized, adjunct spectrometers.