A closed door feels absolute. Light stays in one room, darkness settles in the next, and the boundary seems obvious enough to ...

An international team has demonstrated a new method for producing the most intense light ...

Scientists have created tiny “optical tornadoes” — swirling beams of light that twist like miniature whirlwinds — using a ...

An international team of physicists has achieved a significant advance in laser science, demonstrating for the first time a ...

In a mind-warping milestone experiment, scientists have been able to manipulate small numbers of individual photons of light, opening doors for the development of quantum technologies. This research, ...

Reaching the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would take hundreds of thousands of years using current rocket propulsion ...

(Aitor Diago/Moment/Getty Images) For the first time, physicists have observed that 'holes' in light can move faster than the light itself. They're known as phase singularities or optical vortices, ...

For the first time, researchers measured singularities in combined light and sound waves moving faster than the speed of ...

While the terms "quantum physics" and "Theory of Relativity" are used casually every day, not many people know what they really mean. Yet these theories have had a profound impact not only on science ...

Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg are developing light-controlled, shape-shifting materials by linking molecular machines into 3D structures. These intelligent materials ...

Scientists experimentally confirmed what we’ve known to be true for half a century—darkness can “travel” faster than light.