Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

Physicists from Stevens Institute of Technology and Yale University have launched an experimental program to detect gravitons ...

Shaped quantum light is turning ordinary photons into powerful tools for the future of technology.

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

Quantum entanglement happens when two particles become interconnected and share a single state. Scientists have measured how ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper shows ...

Scientists are learning to engineer light in rich, multidimensional ways that dramatically increase how much information a ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Alex May, whose research explores the intersection of quantum ...

Tiny 3D-printed “light cages” are giving researchers a new way to catch and hold individual particles of light on a chip, a ...

Quantum computers could rapidly solve complex problems that would take the most powerful classical supercomputers decades to ...