A new metasurface lets scientists flip between ultra-stable light vortices, paving the way for tougher, smarter wireless communication.

Semiconductor chips that process light rather than electricity could boost processing speeds and reduce energy use.

The team have pushed the boundaries of quantum mechanics beyond what some thought possible. Now they want to go even further ...

Test results reported in ACS Nano confirm extreme resilience to electronic interference, achieving more than 35 decibels of ...

The 20th century was marked by the discovery of exotic states of matter. First, liquid helium was observed to flow without ...

The same phenomenon was later confirmed for neutrons, helium atoms, and even large molecules, making matter-wave diffraction ...

Despite its popularity, biotin lacks strong evidence for hair regrowth, and safer alternatives like minoxidil are recommended ...

For more than a century, scientists have known that waves can behave in ways that seem to defy common sense, from freak walls of water in the open ocean to ghostly ripples inside atoms. What has ...

Metal clusters made of thousands of atoms showed quantum interference, offering new insight into how large objects follow ...

A record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle ...

Schrödinger’s cat just got a little bit fatter. Physicists have created the largest ever ‘superposition’ — a quantum state in ...

A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...