For centuries, scientific progress has depended on more precise tools for measuring the world around us. Galileo’s telescope ...

A team of physicists has discovered that virtual charges, which exist only during brief interactions with light, play a ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the universe and exploring ...

Quantum computers will need large numbers of qubits to tackle challenging problems in physics, chemistry, and beyond. Unlike ...

Optics and lasers are among the dual-use technologies that generate significant added value. The most widely publicized ...

Scientists propose LILA, a lunar gravitational-wave detector, to explore a mid-band of spacetime vibrations of the Moon and ...

Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of Chemistry and Technology Prague created a ...

A study led by Politecnico di Milano, recently published in Nature Photonics, highlights the crucial role of virtual charges ...

A team at the University of St Andrews has unlocked a major step toward true holographic displays by combining OLEDs with ...

Another major quantum computing record has been broken, and by a considerable margin: physicists have now built an array ...