Beams of light that can be guided into corkscrew-like shapes called optical vortices are used today in a range of ...

A new estimate of the ghostly particle’s maximum possible mass brings physicists a tad closer to understanding the universe.

Physicists have taken a bold step beyond Einstein's special theory of relativity, proposing an expansion of special ...

Two companies have announced photonic devices that could solve specific real-world problems faster and with less energy than conventional computers.

The small mass of the neutrino has been a crucial quest in physics and we still do not know exactly how light they are – but ...

A team of Rice researchers reported the first direct observation of a surprising quantum phenomenon predicted over half a ...

Researchers report their insights on the emerging field of complex frequencies excitations, a recently introduced scheme to control light, sound and other wave phenomena beyond conventional limits.

A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials.

First discovered in the 1990s, dark energy has come to feel like a familiar face of the cosmos. Astronomers first imagined ...

We haven’t figured out exactly what gives them their shape, determines altitude – or makes them rain when they do. But ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has been investigating the first-ever case of a star caught swallowing a planet —and, in classic ...

SPHEREx, NASA’s new space telescope, just opened its eyes to the universe and delivered its very first images from space.