Relaying a message from point A to B can be as simple as flashing a thumbs-up at a stranger in an intersection, signaling ...

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 ...

A new light-based method lets tiny quantum dots release perfectly controlled photons, opening doors to faster and cheaper quantum technology.

Thousands of particles of light can merge into a type of 'super photon' under suitable conditions. Physicists call such a state a photon Bose-Einstein condensate. Researchers have now shown that this ...

About 80% of the universe's mass is thought to consist of dark matter. Yet, little is known about the composition and ...

The first direct visualization of the shape of a photon has been created. These particles of light are impossible to photograph, but physicists at the University of Birmingham have now calculated ...

The decades-old question of whether humans can see individual photons is on the brink of being answered thanks to advances in quantum optics. A positive result would let us use human observers as ...

This massive particle could serve as the connection between dark matter and the everyday matter that comprises stars, planets and us. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Scientists have succeeded in making light behave like a "supersolid" for the first time—a breakthrough that could improve our understanding of this exotic phase of matter. A supersolid has an ordered ...

Quantum materials, defined by their photon-like electrons, are opening new frontiers in material science. Researchers have ...