Even a baseball pitcher with a strong fastball will find situations when a slow pitch with a curved trajectory will perform better. Two independent studies now demonstrate how a curved beam of light ...

If you shine a beam of light from a laser or flashlight, the beam will spread out over distance, becoming wider and less intense far from the source. That phenomenon is called diffraction, and it is ...

In a physics first, a team including scientists from UB and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a way to make beams of neutrons travel in curves. These Airy beams ...

Understanding how helical, curved beams operate — how their spiral cuts accommodate angular and parallel misalignment, axial motion, and system vibrations — is the key to knowing how they will perform ...

Airy beam: When an ordinary beam of neutrons strikes the team’s silicon grating, the millions of scored lines on the grating convert the neutrons into an Airy beam with a wavefront that travels along ...

Among its many notable innovations, the new 2020 Chevrolet Corvette sports car from General Motors Co. features the world’s first radius pultruded auto part. The vehicle’s rear bumper beam (shown ...