This achievement removes one of the biggest roadblocks in quantum materials science and brings practical quantum devices much ...

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest ...

Researchers have uncovered a method to purify a photon stream that is central to quantum circuitry. University of Iowa ...

Physicists successfully teleport quantum information between photons from different sources, a key step towards a secure ...

Engineers at Stanford have created a new optical device that can easily manipulate light into basically any color desired. The system uses a series of modulators to fine-tune the frequencies of ...

Scientists have found a way to turn carbon dioxide and methane, the two most notorious greenhouse gases, into useful chemicals without any expensive catalysts, using only light.

Light, whether from a star or your flashlight, travels at 186,000 miles per second. Artur Debat/Moment via Getty Images My telescope, set up for astrophotography in my light-polluted San Diego ...

Researchers propose an unconventional way to generate light made from entangled photons. In the graphic above, photons meet the electrons of a helium atom, which then emits two entangled photons.

I guess it's like how we use the square root of minus one to solve various equations. It sounda impossible but actually works! Click to expand... Sort've, but I don't think they're going into the ...

A new mesoporous polymer combines optical transparency higher than glass with thermal conductivity lower than air. The ...