Heating a mirror to glowing red raises surprising questions about reflection and light, and this experiment explains what ...

A new method predicts leaf optical properties from traits, improving canopy light modeling and photosynthesis estimates in ...

Physicists have finally turned a long standing thought experiment into a laboratory reality, showing that electromagnetic ...

Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

Controlling light at dimensions thousands of times smaller than the thickness of a human hair is one of the pillars of modern ...

About ten years ago, scientists began exploring an unconventional idea for studying the brain: using bioluminescent light to ...

In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...