The astronomical community is horrified at plans made by a for-profit company to flood the night sky with sunlight.

Mirrors have this strange ability to make us feel uneasy. Maybe it’s because they show us exactly what we look like, or maybe ...

By miniaturizing THz spectroscopy to a chip-scale platform, James McIver’s lab has uncovered a promising new method for controlling quantum materials. Under certain conditions, two-dimensional (2D) ...

Scientists have created the first real-time 3D simulations of how lasers alter the quantum vacuum. Using cutting-edge computational modeling, scientists from the University of Oxford, in collaboration ...

A U.S. company is proposing to 'sell sunlight after dark,' saying it could help power solar farms and provide access to light ...

Photon interactions in materials typically create a gaseous bosonic state, which is prone to turbulent behaviour that disrupts coherence. But it is now shown that, using fast-gain processes in a ...

Graham Lawton is a staff writer who has worked at New Scientist for 24 years including as features editor, deputy editor and magazine editor. Nowadays he mostly writes features about life sciences, ...