Six species of North American bats glow under ultraviolet lighting, according to a new study. Researchers don’t know why ...

Researchers have for the first time created a reconfigurable polariton 2D quasicrystal. The team from the Skolkovo Institute ...

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.

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

Normal cellular processes in living things — from germinating plants to our own cells — create biophotons, though escaping light isn’t visible to us.

If there is an absolute law in the universe, it’s that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of ...

F or centuries, dating back to long before the invention of the telescope, people have reported odd flashes that sometimes ...

As the book came together, Flach was fascinated to learn what science knows—and doesn’t know—about felines of all forms and ...

Steven Schnell has been a science guy from the start. When the new executive director of Little Rock's Museum of Discovery ...