Dark matter is a mysterious type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, yet is predicted to account for most ...

(WHTM) — There’s nothing like a bewildering optical illusion to get the weekend off to a good start. There are all kinds to choose from: the image that looks like one thing but also looks like another ...

Light does a lot of work in the modern world, enabling all types of information technology, from TVs to satellites to ...

In the experiment, a high-power green laser passed through a ruby cube, illuminated from the side by a blue laser. The green laser increased the ruby’s absorption of the blue light, creating a darker ...

NII, NTT, Inc. and NTT EAST, Inc. have successfully demonstrated the world's first automated optical transport layer control, ...

A translator for optical cross-links in orbit and a Link-16 radio have been added to the list of possible demonstrations and experiments planned for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) next round of ...

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