A research team has developed a new way to measure and predict how plant leaves scatter and reflect light, revealing that ...

By combining a custom-built optical instrument with physics-based modeling and machine learning, the study shows that leaf-level optical properties ...

A new method predicts leaf optical properties from traits, improving canopy light modeling and photosynthesis estimates in ...

A tunable metasurface can control optical light in space and time, offering a path toward new ways of wirelessly and securely transmitting large amounts of data both on Earth and in space. It is a ...

Evolving grid dynamics such as climate change and the introduction of more distributed energy resources on the grid, like electric vehicles and solar, have presented new challenges for utilities.