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15 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: August 10, 2026.
Nearly every quantum material discovered so far needs cooling to near absolute zero. This one sorts photons by their quantum statistics at room temperature.
An Osaka team created a device that can steer thermal radiation, switch it on and off, and remember its setting even after the power is cut.
A CUNY team built a spinning system out of engineered metamaterials that amplifies passing waves — reproducing the half-century-old Penrose-Zel'dovich process once thought possible only around a rotating black hole.
By redesigning a single piece of hardware with engineered 'metamaterials,' researchers sharpened scans of hard-to-image tissue — without replacing the scanner.
Carnegie Mellon, Stanford and Purdue researchers harnessed surface phonon polaritons to move up to four times more heat across tiny gaps — a possible breakthrough for cooling computer chips.
Researchers discovered rice weakens under rapid compression but stays strong under slow pressure, leading to self-adapting materials for robotics and safety equipment.
Breakthrough discovery shows rice weakens under rapid compression but stays stronger with slow pressure, leading to development of self-adjusting protective materials.
Breakthrough achieves four times more energy flow than conventional systems, opening door to better chip cooling and precision heat engineering applications.
Researchers achieved up to four times more energy flow than conventional systems using nanoscale gold metamaterials, potentially revolutionizing chip cooling and energy technologies.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon, Stanford and Purdue showed that patterning microscopic gold structures can boost radiative heat transfer up to fourfold, a result that could reshape cooling for electronics and energy systems.
Carnegie Mellon researchers demonstrate breakthrough metamaterials technology that could transform chip cooling and energy efficiency across multiple industries.
Carnegie Mellon researchers achieved four times greater heat transfer than conventional systems, potentially revolutionizing electronics cooling.
Carnegie Mellon researchers demonstrate unprecedented control of nanoscale heat flow, opening doors to revolutionary chip cooling and energy technologies.
Molybdenum oxychloride demonstrates the strongest light-bending effect ever measured in nature, potentially enabling ultrathin smart contact lenses and AR glasses.
Scientists map optical properties of molybdenum oxychloride, revealing strongest light-bending effect ever measured in natural material.