Optical rotatum” is the term researchers coined to describe a newly discovered structure of light. Beams of light that can be shaped into corkscrew-like forms, known as optical vortices, are used ...

Five individuals participated in the experiment, which involved shooting pulses of visible-wavelength laser light directly into their eyes to stimulate individual photoreceptor cells on the retina.

Light can tie knots—literally. Engineers at Duke University have managed to manipulate laser beams to form intricate 3D patterns called optical knots, using custom-designed optics. These twisted beams ...

With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an ...

The northern lights were visible farther south than normal Tuesday, April 15, and they'll be visible again for some residents tonight, April 16.

Residents in a string of northern states could be in with a chance to see the northern lights on Tuesday night, forecasters ...

About 96 years ago, physicists John von Neumann and Eugene Wigner proposed a strange wave behavior that is bewildering scientists even today. They named it bound state in the continuum (BIC). BIC is a ...

Even though FragPunk features Lancers (playable characters) with over-the-top abilities and a diverse slate of high-powered Weapons, the difference between a hard-earned victory and a ...

Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, India Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, India ...

The eclipse, which will be visible early Saturday morning on the East Coast ... sky gazers will see the Sun take on a crescent shape as the moon transits, blocking part of its light. The Baltimore ...

DENVER - Lightwave Logic, Inc. (NASDAQ:LWLG), a developer of electro-optic (EO) polymers for data transmission, announced the availability of its Process Design Kit (PDK) for integrating its EO ...