Physicists have performed a variation of the famous 200-year-old double-slit experiment that, for the first time, involves "exotic looped trajectories" of photons.
From stationary to flying qubits at speeds never reached before... This feat brings us a little closer to the era when information is transmitted via quantum principles.
Australian scientists have stopped light in a cloud of very cold atoms, a development that provides a essential building block for quantum computing.
By slowing down light to a speed slower than flowing electrons, researchers create a kind of optical "sonic boom"
Harnessing the shared wave nature of light and matter, researchers have used light to explore some of the most intriguing questions in the quantum mechanics of materials.
High efficiency ultra-thin planar lens could replace heavy, bulky lenses in smart phones, cameras and telescopes.
Scientists have created a system that uses solar energy to split water molecules and hydrogen-eating bacteria to produce liquid fuels. The system can convert solar energy to biomass with 10 percent efficiency, far above the 1 percent seen in the fastest-growing plants.
Travel to the past is probably impossible. But the future is a different story.
Scientists in Ireland discovered a new form of light that will radically change our understanding of how light functions.
Breakthrough chip for nano-manipulation of light paves way for next generation optical technologies and enables deeper understanding of black holes
Astronomers report that they have observed the most luminous galaxies ever seen in the Universe, objects so bright that established descriptors such as 'ultra-' and 'hyper-luminous' used to describe previously brightest known galaxies don't even come close.
Astrophotographer Ron Brecher took this image of IC 417, known as the spider nebula, from Guelph, Ontario.
Some 300 hot Jupiters have been identified over the past two decades, and this is the first time any close-in planets were discovered.
Astronomers at the University of Maryland, observed the event, which is the closest tidal disruption discovered in about a decade.
Astronomers at the University of Maryland, observed the event, which is the closest tidal disruption discovered in about a decade.
