Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

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, ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

Shaped quantum light is turning ordinary photons into powerful tools for the future of technology.

Researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported the first ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Alex May, whose research explores the intersection of quantum ...

Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...

Gravitational wave facilities measure distortions in the fabric of spacetime down to 10 quadrillionths the width of a hair – small enough to hear interference from particles popping in and out of ...

Italian scientists have achieved a groundbreaking feat by "freezing" light, revealing that it can exist as a supersolid—a rare state of matter that combines solid-like structure with frictionless flow ...

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

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 ...

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 Anne ...