A baby sunlike star blowing a bubble of hot gas called an “astrosphere” was captured for the first time by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

In physics, the classical "Hall effect," discovered in the late 19th century, describes how a transverse voltage is generated ...

Back in 2000, a team of physicists led by Lijun Wang at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, USA, pulled off a mind-bending experiment. They fired a precisely shaped laser pulse through a special ...

By carefully choosing the orientation of the crystal, they were able to produce stable microcombs on the chip. In their latest work, they generated a special kind called a normal dispersion Kerr ...

A new, ultra-thin metasurface is making waves in the world of optics by defying the traditional behavior of light. By combining two innovative geometric phases, researchers have created a surface that ...

Residents of Russia's Sakhalin region were treated to a surreal sight recently: what looked like two suns rising side by side in the morning sky. The breathtaking view quickly went viral on social ...

Early carbon light bulbs may have produced graphene, since applying voltage to carbon filaments mirrors what is now called flash Joule heating. Graphene is a transparent, remarkably strong substance, ...

Light can do more than illuminate a material. In some cases, it can temporarily change how electrons move through it.

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TL;DR: This experiment may not revolutionize telecommunications, but it highlights how accessible these concepts have become outside traditional research labs. Using nothing more than an iPad, a solar ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Light-emitting diodes offer a low-cost, power-efficient, and compact solution for ...

Light can play tricks that challenge the senses, and this one ranks high. In a tabletop experiment, physicists found that a single light pulse can appear to leave an atom cloud before it even enters ...