Light can tie knots—literally. Engineers at Duke University have managed to manipulate laser beams to form intricate 3D patterns called optical knots, using custom-designed optics. These twisted beams ...

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Learn about the optical rotatum, a newfound structure of light that exhibits a spiral pattern linked with various parts of nature.

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Would you add a few more vegetables and whole grains to your diet in return for a healthy old age? A new study has broken ...

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A study explores the factors shaping plant distributions and how these patterns have changed over ... The results were published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Using advanced methods that ...

Just as we see pictures in the clouds, our unconscious ability to discern meaning from patterns interprets the murmuration shapes as peacocks ... was electric as nature came alive in front ...