Imagine a light switch so small it is made from just a few atoms, ...

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

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.

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

Researchers demonstrate that by shaping the spatial and temporal structure of photons, they can engineer customized quantum ...

An international research team reports the discovery of "hidden order" in systems that are disordered in space and time. The ...

Researchers have discovered how to design and place single-photon sources at the atomic scale inside ultrathin 2D materials, ...

Later work by others built on this, showing that these energy levels are a fundamental part of how the universe works at the ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and UCLA will develop a next-generation instrument for detecting and ...

Perovskites are promising materials for solar cells. A layer of dipolar molecules at the perovskite surface improves the ...

Over the past decades, engineers have introduced numerous technologies that rely on light and its underlying characteristics.

Far beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, a tank of liquid xenon is quietly recording some of the faintest signals in the ...