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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

AWE focuses on colorful bands of light known as airglow to measure the waves in the upper atmosphere. This is important to ...

Bright, twisted light can be produced with technology similar to an Edison light bulb, researchers have shown. The finding adds nuance to fundamental physics while offering a new avenue for robotic ...

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 ...

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

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

Light's quantum behavior is well established, with over 100 years of experiments showing it can exist in both wave and particle ... or of how they change through space and time.