A new study suggests dark matter could subtly tint or polarize light, leaving faint color clues that next-generation ...

Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a ...

X-ray beams aren't used just by doctors to see inside your body and tell whether you have a broken bone. More powerful beams ...

One reason is that true blue colours or pigments simply don't exist in nature, and plants and animals have to perform tricks to appear blue, according to the University of Adelaide. Take blue jays for ...

Normal cellular processes in living things — from germinating plants to our own cells — create biophotons, though escaping light isn’t visible to us.

In a lab in Hangzhou, China, a small chip may have just passed one of the most difficult honesty tests in physics. The test ...

The next competitive moat in space is Earth-independent operations, putting artificial intelligence capabilities next to the data so assets can detect, predict and act without waiting for a downlink.