“If you wanted to take a picture of the rocket as it flew past, you would have to take into account that the light from ...

Scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking material capable of bending light in such a way that it renders objects invisible.

Scientists have discovered a technique whereby light can be bent around corners, inspired by the way clouds scatter sunlight. This type of light-bending could lead to advances in medical imaging, ...

Collaboration can be a beautiful thing, especially when people work together to create something new. Take, for example, a longstanding collaboration between Arka Majumdar, a University of Washington ...

The speed of light in a vacuum is the absolute speed limit of the universe. As you accelerate towards it, any object with mass suddenly finds it has a lot more of it, and so it takes more and more ...

Here is everything I saw with a smart telescope in a light-polluted city including galaxies, nebulas and star clusters.

Oxford University scientists may have solved one of the greatest hindrances of expanding access to solar energy. Scientists from the university’s physics department have created an ultra-thin layer of ...