This experiment explores how certain light sources can glow brightly without producing heat, revealing the surprising science ...

Running a synchrotron light source is a massive team effort that brings hundreds of highly skilled and specialized ...

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

Ultraprecise fluorescence nanoscopy techniques such as MINFLUX and RASTMIN are enabling molecular-scale imaging and tracking in biologically relevant conditions. However, their implementation is ...

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

Holograms are created with a single OLED pixel, bringing phones and glasses closer to projecting real 3D images without the ...

The Geminids meteor shower peaks on the evening of Saturday. During its peak, the AMS says that it can spit out upwards of ...

Because dark matter is completely invisible to light, science had to look for clever new methods to spot it.

Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most energetic particles come from. Their studies uncovered a pulsar wind ...

As one might expect from a month full of long, dark nights, December is a highlight for those with a penchant for looking to ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...