Researchers have discovered that perovskite crystals can rapidly and reversibly change shape when exposed to light, revealing ...

A single subatomic particle from deep space had the same energy as a baseball pitch, and scientists still don’t know how it ...

A string of recent experiments has moved desktop-scale particle accelerators from theoretical curiosity to working prototypes ...

A new plasmonic fiber probe uses linearly polarized light and energy recycling for broadband nanofocusing with resolution ...

Pushing optical imaging below the diffraction limit usually requires complicated illumination schemes and still suffers from weak, unstable signals ...

Scientists have unveiled a new approach to ultra-secure communication that could make quantum encryption simpler and more ...

Light can carry angular momentum in two distinct ways. One comes from polarization, which describes how the electric field ...

Harbin Institute of Technology researchers propose a new terrain-aware framework for jointly optimising coverage, ...

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have measured “dark points” inside light waves that appear to ...

Narwhal-shaped wavefunctions describe a unique way of confining light to extremely small spaces. The mode volume measures how ...

Researchers built a silver-grooved chip that channels laser energy into nanometer-spaced peaks, beating the diffraction limit and aiding light-matter studies. (Nanowerk News) Physics is full of pesky ...

A surge in Boston homicides has experts sounding the alarm, warning the spike exposes the consequences of soft-on-crime policies taking root in cities nationwide. According to newly released data from ...