A research team in Bochum, Germany has unexpectedly found that light can slow down movements in the nanoworld. This is due to ...

First sight?: CERN's ATLAS collaboration claims to see light-by-light scattering for first time The idea that particles of light can interact with one another – known as light-by-light scattering – ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. For the first time, scientists have watched groups of three photons ...

There's an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which John de Lancie's nearly-omnipotent alien character "Q" is stripped of his powers and banished to the Enterprise as a human because fans of ...

An optical analogue of a topological insulator has been created by physicists based in Israel and Germany. Consisting of an array of helical waveguides, light cannot propagate between waveguides in ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the ...

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 ...

Every wireless router in a home or office broadcasts the same fundamental type of energy that a ceiling light emits. The ...

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Traveling faster than the speed of light is a staple of science fiction. Whether it's jumping to hyperspace, engaging the warp drive, or opening the stargate, most stories about interstellar travel ...