Long before quantum mechanics existed, a scientist developed a powerful way of describing motion by drawing an analogy between particles and light.

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Billionaires and intellectuals attended events with the disgraced financier years after he served time for sex offense, files reveal ...

A Brisbane start-up has emerged from stealth with a radical solution to the energy crisis threatening AI’s expansion, and US defence giant Lockheed Martin is already paying attention.

Atomic layer processing improves optical performance in SiC photonic devices, crucial for developing efficient quantum systems and integrated photonic circuits.

The O2O system could send more data to Earth than ever before, NASA says.

For most of the past century, wormholes sat comfortably in the realm of science fiction, a mathematical curiosity that let ...

Scientists pushed photons across the universe to test the speed of light—and found Einstein’s cosmic speed limit still holds ...

A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing ...

Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, ...

A new metasurface design lets light of different spins bend, focus, and behave independently—while staying sharp across many ...