Experiments with identical replicas of Thomas Edison's original light bulbs shows the inventor may have accidentally created ...

Light can do more than illuminate a material. In some cases, it can temporarily change how electrons move through it.

A team of scientists has replicated one of Thomas Edison's early experiments from his quest to make the lightbulb, but with ...

A team of engineers and scientists has shown for the first time that a hard-X-ray cavity can provide net X-ray gain, with ...

Lecturer, Pharmacology, Women's Health, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Western Australia For millennia, humans had one obvious and reliable source of light – the Sun – and we knew ...

A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has now been carried out with sound for the first time. Research by physicists in Leiden has produced new insights that could be applied in 5G devices and the ...

The most beautiful experiment in physics, according to a poll of Physics World readers, is the interference of single electrons in a Young’s double slit. Robert P Crease reports Simply beautiful – the ...

Turn on a light outside at night, and it won't be long before a bevy of insects start careening wildly around it, apparently drawn in "like a moth to a flame," as the saying goes. Now, in a series of ...