What is the purpose of light? How does light work? Why does light exist? This video explores the longstanding debate over ...

Ultrathin structures that can bend, focus, or filter light, metasurfaces are reshaping how scientists think about optics. These engineered materials offer precise control over lights behavior, but ...

Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.

A team of physicists from the University of Innsbruck and Harvard University has proposed a fundamentally new way to generate ...

Scientists have created the first real-time 3D simulations of how lasers alter the quantum vacuum. Using cutting-edge computational modeling, scientists from the University of Oxford, in collaboration ...

Researchers in Konstanz discovered a way to manipulate materials with light by exciting magnon pairs, reshaping their ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

Dermatologists explain the science behind wildly popular treatments like red light therapy, which is now available at home—for a steep price. Full-face LED masks like this one can cost up to several ...

Combining a quantum-inspired algorithm and quantum information processing technologies could enable researchers to measure ...

In a metal like copper, however, the outer electrons swim around freely and are shared by all the atoms. That’s why ...