Bright, twisted light can be produced with technology similar to an Edison light bulb, researchers at the University of ...

The original double-slit experiment, first performed in 1801 by Thomas Young, showed that light behaves as a wave. Later ...

Does light behave more like a particle, or like a wave? Today we know the surprising answer. Here's why it took so long to ...

A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by enormous black hole collisions paints a surprisingly loud and ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan discovered a way to produce bright, twisted light using technology akin to an ...

A quantum state of light has been successfully teleported through more than 30 kilometers (around 18 miles) of fiber optic ...

and also shorter-wavelength ultraviolet and longer-wavelength infrared light, invisible to the eye but detectable by certain telescopes on Earth and in space—and by the still longer waves of ...

Atmospheric waves discovered from the International Space Station 55 miles above Earth, revealing new connections to Earth's ...

Results from a 2021 experiment led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist have begun to reveal the particle-level ...

The question “are we alone in the universe?” has fascinated people for centuries. In 1959 two Cornell University physicists described how we might answer that question through interstellar ...