The Ketchikan Public Library’s event room on Thursday afternoon was buzzing with a group of lively youngsters excited to ...

Light is one of the most studied forces in science, yet one of its core behaviors still has no clear explanation. This ...

A nanoscale optical device has been developed that allows independent control over the intensity and phase of light. By ...

This sort of motion is common in galaxies sporting active central supermassive black holes, like the one in the nearby ...

The idea was first hypothesized about 70 years ago. In a bizarre repercussion of Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, objects traveling close to the speed of light appear flipped over. The ...

Researchers have developed a blueprint for weaving hopfions—complex, knot-like light structures—into repeating spacetime crystals. By exploiting two-color beams, they can generate ordered chains and ...

The early bird gets the worm, as the old saying goes. And now a lot of birds around the globe are starting their days earlier than ever, because of unnaturally bright skies caused by light pollution. ...

Humans have a new way of seeing infrared light, without the need for clunky night-vision goggles. Researchers have made the first contact lenses to convey infrared vision — and the devices work even ...