In a fascinating dive into the strange world of quantum physics, scientists have shown that light can interact with itself in bizarre ways—creating ghost-like virtual particles that pop in and out of ...

As technology advances, photonic systems are gaining ground over traditional electronics, using light to transmit and process ...

If you scroll through social media lately, you’ve probably noticed something twinkling in the background of countless posts: ...

The interference of the scattered light is recorded with a highly sensitive camera depicted as a screen. Incoherent light ...

MIT physicists performed an idealized version of the double-slit experiment, stripping it to its quantum essentials. They ...

For more than half a century, scientists have tried to understand dark matter—a mysterious form of matter that doesn’t emit ...

What does a 1060 nm laser diode do when it becomes the hottest property in a game of geopolitical chess? For defense ...

Until today, skin, brain, and all tissues of the human body were difficult to observe in detail with an optical microscope, ...

The Light Stage 3 (2002) was the first physical set to use an array of RGB LED lights surrounding an actor to create an ...

Atomic-scale detail is now possible with photons, thanks to a cooled-down silver tip and a clever use of plasmonics.

Key TakeawaysScientists have used laser-excited thorium-229 to probe for ultralight dark matter, even without a fully built ...