For the first time, physicists in Italy have created a 'lump soliton': an extremely stable packet of light waves which can ...

Shaped quantum light is turning ordinary photons into powerful tools for the future of technology.

Shining in the constellation Gemini near the bright stars Pollux and Castor, Jupiter's opposition is the best time to see the ...

A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

Researchers at Princeton and North Carolina State University have developed a technique that substantially improves the ...

Artificial intelligence is consuming enormous amounts of energy, but researchers at the University of Florida have built a chip that could change everything by using light instead of electricity for a ...

Researchers at Tsinghua University developed the Optical Feature Extraction Engine (OFE2), an optical engine that processes data at 12.5 GHz using light rather than electricity. Its integrated ...

Chinese scientists have allegedly developed a series of new photonic (light-based) microchips that could outperform NVIDIA’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) graphics processing units (GPUs) by ...

Dermatologists explain the science behind wildly popular treatments like red light therapy, which is now available at home—for a steep price. Full-face LED masks like this one can cost up to several ...

A gamma-ray burst (GRB) — the most energetic type of explosion in the universe since the Big Bang — is detected once every day, on average. But what happened on July 2, 2025, was highly unusual: ...