Can light behave like a whirlwind? It turns out it can—and such "optical tornadoes" have now been created in an extremely ...

A research group from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology reports in Nature an unprecedented achievement in electron ...

Yet swarms of fireflies clearly exercise a level of control over when they light up, and they do so only in specialized ...

A new metasurface design lets light of different spins bend, focus, and behave independently—while staying sharp across many colors. The trick combines two geometric phase effects so each spin channel ...

Scientists have traced a 3,000-light-year-long cosmic jet streaming out from the first black hole ever imaged to its likely source point with the help of "significantly enhanced coverage" from the ...

Desert Ensemble Theatre’s (DET’s) world premiere production of DISPERSION OF LIGHT, a historical drama by Richard Rubin, is, as usual, brilliantly directed and acted and technically superb. Mr. Rubin, ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

The heavens have a habit of throwing us a curveball just when we think we have the cosmos figured out. The latest arrival, a mysterious interstellar interloper dubbed 3I/ATLAS (officially designated C ...

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I believe we are made of two things: love and light. Perhaps that sounds like wispy new-age speak, but my personal sense of faith tells me that love is the directive force in the universe. Love is ...

When physicists at the University of Konstanz shone a flash of light on a simple iron crystal, they weren’t expecting to watch the rules of matter change before their eyes. Yet that seems to be what ...