"Mind-bending physics experiments recreate double-slit and benefit legged robots with cold exposure"

Scientists have created "slits in time" by sending light through a material that changes from transparent to reflective in response to light, creating a unique diffraction pattern across time. The findings pave the way for advances in analog computers that manipulate data imprinted on beams of light instead of digital bits and deepen our understanding of the fundamental nature of light and its interactions with materials. The researchers hope to use these phenomena to create metamaterials, or structures designed to alter the path of light in specific and often sophisticated ways.