Today's super-resolution microscopes have made it possible to observe the nanoscale world with unprecedented detail. However, they require fluorescent tags, which reveal structural details but provide ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

Pushing the limits of structured light, applied physicists report a new type of optical vortex beam that not only twists as it travels but also changes in different parts at different rates to create ...

The science behind the colours of a rainbow is a reminder of the wonders of the original quantum designer In the fifth ...

In a striking demonstration of molecular control, a team of scientists has harnessed light to reverse the twist in self-assembling molecules. The study identifies how trace residual aggregates in ...

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 ...

For over 400 years, sailors have reported a mysterious phenomenon in which the ocean appears to glow as far as the eye can see.

A novel way to find aliens might be through gravitational wave detection, Loeb says. He is interested in laser interferometry ...

Explore the phenomenon of glowing ocean events known as milky seas, created by bioluminescent bacteria visible from space.

People in states including Idaho, Montana and North Dakota may be able to catch a glimpse of the northern lights on Wednesday ...

A machine learning method has the potential to revolutionize multi-messenger astronomy. Detecting binary neutron star mergers ...

Can scientists build a detector of near-Earth objects that would sense gravitational waves produced by any "dark" objects ...