{"id":212484,"date":"2025-04-26T17:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/they-twisted-light-on-gold-and-what-they-saw-blew-their-minds"},"modified":"2025-04-26T17:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:05:30","slug":"they-twisted-light-on-gold-and-what-they-saw-blew-their-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/they-twisted-light-on-gold-and-what-they-saw-blew-their-minds","title":{"rendered":"They Twisted Light on Gold \u2014 And What They Saw Blew Their Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/they-twisted-light-on-gold-and-what-they-saw-blew-their-minds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Germany have crafted \u201cskyrmion bags\u201d of light\u2014complex vortex-like structures\u2014on the surface of gold by cleverly manipulating how laser beams interact with nano-etched patterns.<\/p>\n<p>This unusual feat not only adds a surprising twist to the physics of light but also hints at future technologies that could break the limits of current microscopes.<\/p>\n<p>Skyrmion light bags: a new breakthrough<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Germany have crafted \u201cskyrmion bags\u201d of light\u2014complex vortex-like structures\u2014on the surface of gold by cleverly manipulating how laser beams interact with nano-etched patterns. This unusual feat not only adds a surprising twist to the physics of light but also hints at future technologies that could break the limits of current microscopes. Skyrmion light [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}