Metasurfaces have the potential to fundamentally improve optical systems in our everyday lives. By controlling light more precisely, they drive compact, multi-functional solutions. Researchers have ...

Solar power has long been seen as a clean alternative to fossil fuels. But its everyday use still faces hurdles. Traditional ...

China is finalizing construction on what will be the world’s brightest X-ray light source. Located about 30 miles (50 km) ...

Imagine being able to flip a material from transparent to opaque, or reshape its properties in less than a billionth of a ...

For the first time, scientists have captured the clearest and most detailed image of the cosmic microwave background (CMB)—the faint glow of the Big Bang, dating back 380,000 years after the universe ...

Scientists have unlocked a new way to control ionization, the process where atoms lose electrons, using specially designed ...

Boston biotech Beam Therapeutics has announced initial data from a phase 1/2 trial of its gene therapy for a genetic lung and liver disease, with no serious adverse events reported among the nine ...

A small international team of nanotechnologists, engineers and physicists has developed a way to force laser light into becoming a supersolid. Their paper is published in the journal Nature.

An odd solid that can flow like a fluid has been created from light for the first time. Studying it will help researchers better understand exotic quantum states of matter. “We actually made lig ...

Alphabet has introduced a breakthrough in optical wireless communication with its newly developed Taara chip, a fingernail-sized silicon photonic chip that uses light beams to transmit high-speed ...

For years now, Alphabet's Taara division has been delivering internet connectivity in far-flung areas with traffic-light-sized transmitters that communicate over long distances using beams of light.