For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical ...

Ultrathin structures that can bend, focus, or filter light, metasurfaces are reshaping how scientists think about optics.

This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...

Researchers from the University of Arizona, working with an international team, have captured and controlled quantum ...

A team of researchers at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has created a new breakthrough in ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

A new experiment has demonstrated something that sounds physically impossible – light itself casting a shadow. It turns out that if you manipulate a laser just right, then hit it side-on with another ...

Superradiance When multiple electrons emit light in a coordinated manner, the resulting emission is much stronger than the sum of individual emissions. (Courtesy ...

Astronomy is, in essence, an exercise in inference. We cannot touch the stars, nor scoop up galaxies in a lab. Instead, we ...

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called ...

While the terms "quantum physics" and "Theory of Relativity" are used casually every day, not many people know what they really mean. Yet these theories have had a profound impact not only on science ...

According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe ...