"Laser light casting a shadow was previously thought impossible ... the shadow of a laser beam because they treat it as a cylinder without accounting for the physics of a laser beam. Some of the ...

A diagram illustrating how the experimental setup worked The effect works thanks to some intriguing optical physics. Where ...

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

Lightspeed travel is a popular concept in sci-fi and pop culture, but it's not a technology we are likely to see anytime soon ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

Scientists discovered a way to encode more data into light by creating light vortices with quasicrystals. This method could ...

New research uses electric fields to manipulate metallic nanoparticles capable of producing vortices within the laser light.

The study says that the gravitational distortions observed in distant galaxies exhibit subtle discrepancies with the ...

In a groundbreaking experiment at the Technion Faculty of Physics, researchers demonstrated the transfer of atoms via quantum ...