A team of physicists has captured the Terrell-Penrose effect, showing objects appearing rotated as if moving at 99.9% the ...

USC engineers have developed an optical system that routes light autonomously using thermodynamic principles. Rather than ...

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

Cornell researchers have built a programmable optical chip that can change the color of light by merging photons, without ...

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

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...

By harnessing light to command electrons, this discovery hints at a new era of hybrid photonic-electronic devices—where ...

In new work, scientists from China’s Shandong Normal University and the Australian National University have found a way forward. As reported in Advanced Photonics, they designed a class of ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics honours John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis for revealing quantum phenomena in ...

Wiley, a global leader in authoritative content and research intelligence, today announced its acquisition of Nanophotonics, an open access journal that ranks within the top 20 journals in the ISI ...

The Nobel Prize laureates in physics for 2025, John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, used a series of ...

Researchers in Germany have now directly observed this wobble with the highest precision yet thanks to a large ring laser gyroscope they developed for this purpose. The instrument, which is located in ...