When Gabriel Lippmann collected the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics, he did so for an invention he himself admitted was of ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have detected a previously unknown quantum force capable of bending light in ...

A study led by Politecnico di Milano, recently published in Nature Photonics, highlights the crucial role of virtual charges ...

The visible patterns produced by the time crystals could be used for data storage and anti-counterfeiting designs.

The 2023 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier for their work on generating ultra-short pulses of light to study how electrons move through ...

Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland share the 2018 physics Nobel for their work with lasers that have led to numerous practical applications, such as eye surgery. “The main practical ...

Dark matter has bewildered scientists for centuries. It makes up most of the universe’s matter, but it can’t be seen directly ...

Black holes can’t be formed from pure light. Quantum physics would curb their creation under any foreseeable conditions, a new study suggests. Typically, matter is responsible for black holes. They’re ...

When a bubble pops in a liquid, it can produce a flash of light, which we now know is thanks to quantum mechanics. Sonoluminescence is a phenomenon in which small bubbles, produced and fixed in place ...

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Brain power Spun out from the University of Nottingham in the UK, Cerca Magnetics has developed the world’s first wearable magnetoencephalography scanner (Courtesy: University of Nottingham/Cerca ...