A Bell test, named for the Northern Irish physicist John Stewart Bell, is a randomized trial that compares observations against the philosophical worldview...
A team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has developed a bright-light emitting...
Nocturnal animals can use the stars and the Milky Way to find their way during the darkest hours, according to a new review article, published in the Proceedings...
Using the Experiment to Detect Global EoR Signature (EDGES), a small ground-based radio telescope at CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in...
Researchers have designed silicon nanowires that allow modulation neuronal activity using light, allowing manipulation of specific neural circuits without...
A team of physicists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and elsewhere has created a new kind of photonic matter that could enable quantum...
According to a new study published in the journal Hippocampus, spending too much time in dimly-lit environment may change the brain’s structure and hurt...
A team of scientists from the University of California and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found a way to infuse plants with the luminescence...
A team of researchers has developed a new tool that can produce complex states of light. The research appears in the journal Science.
A metasurface uses...
Nearly five decades after it was first predicted that rapidly rotating hot stars would emit polarized light, astronomers have succeeded in observing the...
Physicists from the ATLAS experiment, one of the four major experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, have found the first direct...
An international team of scientists has used data from ESA’s Planck Space Observatory and other telescopes to map the distribution of all light energy...
A team of computer scientists and electrical engineers at the University of Washington has invented a cellphone that requires no batteries and harvests...
By focusing laser light to brightness one billion times greater than the surface of the Sun, a team of physicists from the United States and China has...
An international team of physicists has experimentally demonstrated that superfluid motion of light is possible under ambient conditions. Until now, this...
A novel system developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) could make it possible to control the way a liquid moves over...
A team of researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK, has discovered a new mechanism involved in the generation of paired photons.
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Scientists have discovered a new type of photoreceptor protein that is about 50 times more efficient at capturing light than the rhodopsin, a protein that...
Ten trillionths of your suntan comes from beyond our Milky Way Galaxy, according to a team of astronomers led by Prof. Simon Driver from the University...
According to a team of physicists at Imperial College London (ICL), UK, it is possible to create a new form of light by binding light to a single electron,...
