A type of paper that has the thermal properties of glass but is flexible, foldable and optically transparent has been fabricated by scientists in Japan (Adv. Mater. 21, 1595–1598; 2009). The key to ...

The environmental impacts that can result from making forest and paper products are impossible to ignore. Millions of acres of forests are logged each year and, as a result, threatened species may be ...

A scalable nanofabrication method uses electric-field alignment and picosecond laser welding to imprint patterned silver nanowire networks on polymer films.

At a time when news organizations are counting on reader participation to survive, one local paper has started holding online editorial meetings. The daily newspaper of Litchfield County Connecticut, ...

A new paper published in the BMJ by co-authors Trudo Lemmens and Carlos Herrera Vacaflor calls for more coordination between regulatory agencies in the Americas despite recent initiatives designed to ...

You might have wondered why a cheesesteak bag or a pizza box becomes slightly see-through when touched by its greasy contents. To understand why, we need to understand how light interacts with matter.