Among the vast rainbow of fruits, blue fruits are so rare that scientists classify them as outliers. But strip away a blueberry’s waxy outer coating and the berry looks black. Squish it and the juice ...

Wouldn’t it be nice if your clothes could keep you as cool as your A/C? This new, durable fabric coating can cool the wearer by up to 15 degrees Fahrenheit without using any additional energy, thanks ...

Scientists have created a transparent solar coating that turns ordinary windows into clean energy generators without affecting clarity. Using cholesteric liquid crystal layers, the coating redirects ...

David Bell, the founder and CEO of Minneapolis-based Phygen Coatings Inc., says his coatings dramatically improve wear and corrosion protection, reduce friction and extend the life of metal tools used ...

Thermally induced fluctuations impose a fundamental limit on precision measurement. In optical interferometry, the current bounds of stability and sensitivity are dictated by the excess mechanical ...

Co-author Georg Winkler working on a set-up used to characterize the high-performance mirrors under vacuum. (© 2019 Barbara Mair, Universität Wien) Low-loss, highly-reflective “supermirrors” – that is ...