A multilayered semiconductor acting as an optical sensor opens the way to miniaturized, adjunct spectrometers.

In 1845, Michael Faraday discovered what’s known today as the Faraday Effect—which describes how light and electromagnetism ...

Scientists have unraveled the evolutionary journey of a unique type of photosynthesis that allows some bacteria to harness far-red light, a region beyond the visible spectrum. This discovery could ...

Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...

How does color work, and how does the type of light source you use affect the colors you see? Appliance Science looks at the science of light and color. Richard Baguley Richard Baguley has been ...

About 2.5 billion years ago, a pigment called chlorophyll appeared in single-celled organisms, allowing them to capture energy in the form of light and convert it into sugars. This biochemical trick, ...

Imagine a piece of debris, ejected violently from a star system light-years away, now hurtling through our own cosmic ...

Although Mary Berridge’s son displayed signs of autism from birth – including motor skill and speech delays, difficulty with change and sensory sensitivity – it took over seven years for him to be ...

Beyond light, noise also possesses a spectrum of colors, each with a unique frequency profile. These 'colors of noise,' like ...