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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Researchers from the School of Physics at Wits University, working with collaborators from the Universitat Autònoma de ...

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 ...