Many organisms leverage showy colors for attracting mates. Because color is a property of light (determined by its wavelength), it is easy for humans to see how these colors are used in animal ...

The invention of tiny devices capable of precisely controlling the direction and behavior of light is essential to the ...

A single, ultrafast laser pulse has flipped the polarity of a ferromagnet without first heating it to the brink of losing its ...

Light can do more than illuminate a material. In some cases, it can temporarily change how electrons move through it.

Bees rely on sunlight and polarized light to navigate, making nighttime flight dangerous and often impossible for honey bees.

Students in the class ENGRI 1100: "Lasers and Photonics" engage in hands-on learning and build a laser for an assignment.

Hamburg-based researchers have developed a system that generates better X-ray pulses at the European X-Ray Free-Electron ...

Venezuela moves to privatize its oil industry after U.S. intervention, a shift driven by Trump’s push to reshape energy ...

In the first three weeks of 2026, there have already been more than 400 new measles cases, as the U.S. looks to blow past ...

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss came in with a mandate to reshape coverage. She is set to announce plans for newsroom ...

Many have wondered why the Chinese-American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu never won a share of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics ...