"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

Physicists have taken a gemstone better known for engagement rings and turned it into a laboratory for one of the strangest ...

A simple burst of visible light can now create skin-safe electrodes that could transform medical and wearable electronics.

Imaging technology has transformed how we observe the universe—from mapping distant galaxies with radio telescope arrays to ...

A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change ...

NASA's SPHEREx has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, revealing hidden details about galaxies and the early ...

New lensless imaging system uses sensor arrays and computation to deliver wide-field, sub-micron optical resolution.

Researchers have pushed light control into a regime that used to belong strictly to theory, steering optical waves at the ...

From this chilly vantage point, Villareal can see his monitor and also the top half of 270 Park Avenue, the new JPMorgan ...

In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her ...