In a Physical Review Letters study, the HOLMES collaboration has achieved the most stringent upper bound on the effective ...

Researchers armed with a new "photonic lantern" device have discovered an unexpectedly asymmetrical disk of gas swirling ...

EPFL researchers have developed a method to calibrate electron spectrometers with extreme accuracy by linking microwave, ...

The reason why we don’t see utter blackness is once again because of that visual noise, which come from signals from our ...

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.

For more than 50 years, scientists have dreamed of seeing the hidden patterns that govern the motion of nonlinear waves—the ...

By miniaturizing THz spectroscopy to a chip-scale platform, James McIver’s lab has uncovered a promising new method for controlling quantum materials. Under certain conditions, two-dimensional (2D) ...

How do you make an object invisible? Professor Sir John Pendry worked out that it involves guiding and bending light in precise ways by changing the structure of the material it is travelling through.

Lucas is a writer and narrative designer from Argentina with over 15 years of experience writing for games and news. He keeps a watchful eye at the gaming world and loves to write about the hottest ...

I tried a series of amazing light experiments to explore reflections, refractions, and optical illusions, showing just how fun and surprising light can be. Suspect sent text saying he would 'take out' ...

Chinese boffins have emerged from their smoke filled labs having invented some photonic witchcraft that could drive comms gear faster. Electrons in a magnetic field can pull off neat tricks like ...