light control

A war was being fought at Bellingar Estates, a 9.5-acre vineyard in Oregon's wine country. The adversaries? Birds vs. Grapes. Vineyard owner Evan Bellinger wanted to combat bird damage and found a cutting-edge laser bird deterrent, AVIX…

A new breakthrough uses a specialized material a mere three atoms thick to more precisely control light than previously possible. The work was conducted in the lab of Harry Atwater, and the results appear in a paper published in the October…