Researchers discovered that when atoms interact and remain entangled with light, they emit stronger, more coordinated bursts of energy.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Vision is the perception of light. To comprehend the nature of human vision, an understanding of the properties ...

Researchers from the School of Physics at Wits University, working with collaborators from the Universitat Autònoma de ...

Light's behavior seems counterintuitive. That is, until you figure out light is a wave. The way light behaves can seem very counterintuitive, and many physicists would agree with that, but once you ...

A new laser based on a swirling vortex of light has been created by physicists in the US. The “topological-defect laser” could be a useful addition to lab-on-a-chip devices, where it could manipulate ...

Light can’t seem to keep itself together—at least in two dimensions—according to new findings from the University of Colorado Boulder. This research found that when a dimension is removed from light’s ...

Given their tiny size, individual atoms are notoriously tricky to see and manipulate, but finding ways to do so would be extremely useful. The invention of the laser in the 1960s eventually led to the ...

For the first time, scientists have watched groups of three photons interacting and effectively producing a new form of light. In results published in Science, researchers suggest that this new light ...

A new way of creating specially shaped pulses of ultrasound using light and a 3D printer has been unveiled by Michael Brown and colleagues at University College London. The pulses, which are creating ...