Saharan Silver Ants Have Ultra High-Tech Cooling Surface


A team of scientists led by Nanfang Yu, assistant professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, and colleagues from the University of Zürich and the University of Washington, have discovered...

Federico Capasso: Generating Electricity by Releasing Infrared Light


One of the less appreciated privileges of becoming a tenured professor at Harvard University is that most people consider even your wildest ideas seriously. Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace...