When you shine a flashlight into a glass of water, the beam bends. That simple observation, familiar since ancient times, ...

With its ability to control light at nanoscale, plasmonics is transforming optical technologies, impacting fields from ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have detected a previously unknown quantum force capable of bending light in ...

Physicists from Imperial College London have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in quantum physics by reimagining the ...

In a mind-warping milestone experiment, scientists have been able to manipulate small numbers of individual photons of light, opening doors for the development of quantum technologies. This research, ...

Black holes can’t be formed from pure light. Quantum physics would curb their creation under any foreseeable conditions, a new study suggests. Typically, matter is responsible for black holes. They’re ...

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The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists who created pulses of light so short they can be used to watch the inner workings of atoms. Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and ...

HERE is a readable book, excellently translated, for which we have again to thank Mr. H. L. Brose. Though it is called an introduction to the theory of relativity and gravitation, it is more strictly ...