A new set of computer simulations may finally explain several long-standing mysteries surrounding gigantic radio "relics" ...

For nearly two centuries, physics textbooks have treated light as magnetically indifferent to the materials it passes through ...

An experiment 180 years ago first demonstrated a connection between light and electromagnetism – but the link is deeper than ...

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have demonstrated that quantum light, particularly bright squeezed ...

Researchers in Europe have developed a technique for obtaining accurate laser-based measurements of objects hidden behind complex scattering structures. They say that their mathematical formula, which ...

Their importance shows up when photons scatter off each other—something that doesn’t happen in classical physics but becomes possible in the quantum world due to virtual particles. Researchers ...

A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has now been carried out with sound for the first time. Research by physicists in ...

A scattering-invariant mode of light is generated by a spatial light modulator. This modulated beam propagates through free space (top) or a strongly scattering medium (bottom) such that the pattern ...

Gravitational wave facilities measure distortions in the fabric of spacetime down to 10 quadrillionths the width of a hair – small enough to hear interference from particles popping in and out of ...

On Sept. 14, 2015 astronomers “heard” two black holes crashing into each other at close to the speed of light. This discovery was a watershed moment in physics and astrophysics, heralding an entirely ...

Researchers at Tampere University and the University of Eastern Finland have reached a milestone in a study where they derived a new kind of wave equation, which applies for accelerating waves. The ...

Scientists found a way to transform light into a solid form. They banded together and came up with an experiment that changed ...