Intense techno from inside a virtual environment. Refraction Festival is a two-week festival celebrating electronic music, visual art, fashion and internet culture, which airs online from July 16-31, ...

Scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays -- without the need for artificially manufactured metamaterials. Scientists have long sought to control light ...

Two physicists in China have shown that it should be possible to observe negative refraction with sound waves. Xiangdong Zhang of Beijing Normal University and Zhengyou Liu of Wuhan University have ...

Graphene and negative refractive-index materials are two of the hottest topics in physics -- but one might not think they have much in common. Now, however, physicists in the UK and US have proposed ...