To ask if a beam of light can make a shadow sounds like a sort of Zen paradox, but physicists have demonstrated the ...

This could enable new tech for controlling light with light, opening doors to advanced fabrication, imaging, and illumination ...

In Optica, Optica Publishing Group's journal for high-impact research, the researchers describe how they used a ruby crystal and specific laser wavelengths to show that a laser beam could block light ...

This distinctive quality creates momentum band gaps, or unusual states where light pauses inside the crystal while its ...

A recent breakthrough in the development of photonic time crystals could dramatically alter how we manipulate and amplify ...

An international research team has for the first time designed realistic photonic time crystals ---- exotic materials that exponentially amplify light. The breakthrough opens up exciting possibilities ...

"I don't want to walk around scared," the woman told KCCI. "I know I'm going to see it every day for the rest of my life, but it happened, and I survived." ...

Founded 70 years ago, it makes all of its traditional ice cream with three main ingredients: cream, eggs and sugar.

Ever wonder how Rockefeller Center picks its tree? Or where the tree's lights are stored during the offseason? Or if the tree ...

Scientists have created a compact spectral singlet lens that turns standard cameras into hyperspectral ones, reducing system ...

Crystal chandeliers that once glimmered above a swanky lounge, bright blue costume feathers that cloaked shimmying showgirls, ...