Apple is announcing iOS 27 right now, and one of the first new features is a refined design update for Liquid Glass. This includes a new slider that lets users precisely choose between an opaque ...

Researchers have recently found a new way to summon useful structures in magnetic materials using light, heat, and electric fields. This new method, described in a new study published in Physical ...

MicroPython is a well-known and easy-to-use way to program microcontrollers in Python. If you’re using an Arduino Uno Q, though, you’re stuck without it. [Natasha] saves the day by bringing us a a ...

Controlling light with light is a long-sought goal for computing and communication technologies. Achieving this capability would allow optical signals to be processed without converting them into ...

The cult-favorite water brand steps into the energy drink market with four coffee-level caffeinated options meant to bring "Death to Drowsies" Liquid Death Liquid Death expands into energy drinks with ...

Imagine a clock that doesn’t have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, physicists at CU Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that ...

Lenses made with liquid crystals could lead to eyeglasses that can easily switch between correcting near- and far-sightedness. Instead of fashioning lenses just from glass, which must be made convex ...

Responsive materials using liquid crystal elastomers (LCE) have been used in artificial muscles, robotics, and other dynamic materials. The ability to pre-align and orient the polymer network leads to ...

At the edge of two exotic materials, scientists have discovered a new state of matter called a "quantum liquid crystal" that behaves unlike anything we've seen before. When a conductive Weyl semimetal ...

Liquid Death, the brand known for marketing canned water like it's a heavy metal band, is expanding into the energy drink space, the company confirmed to USA TODAY on July 17. The company said in an ...