An experiment 180 years ago first demonstrated a connection between light and electromagnetism – but the link is deeper than ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have overturned a 180-year-old scientific assumption, proving ...

New research shows that light’s magnetic field is far more influential than scientists once believed. The team found that ...

Light is well known to exhibit both wave-like and particle-like properties, as imaged here in this 2015 photograph. What's less well appreciated is that matter particles also exhibit those wave-like ...

For nearly two centuries, physics textbooks have treated light as magnetically indifferent to the materials it passes through ...

Scientists have uncovered how close we can get to perfect optical precision using AI, despite the physical limitations imposed by light itself. By combining physics theory with neural networks trained ...

A twist in the universe's first light could hint that scientists need to rethink physics. A pair of Japanese scientists looked at the polarization or orientation of light from the cosmic microwave ...

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have demonstrated that quantum light, particularly bright squeezed ...

STOCKHOLM - Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for creating incredibly short pulses of light that can capture processes inside atoms and ...

If so, laws might change when the universe itself changes phase. In the early universe, as temperatures and densities shifted, forces split apart from a unified origin. What we call “laws” may be like ...