A research team has mapped the rapidly expanding toolkit for watching laser welds as they form, showing how optical sensors and artificial intelligence (AI) can reveal defects before a finished ...

The new Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at UC San Diego brings together the Jacobs School of ...

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Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Ultra-weak ‘biophotons’ might be used to diagnose disease, or could even represent a new signalling mechanism in cells.

Scientists have created an “electron lighthouse” that uses laser light to launch and steer electrons through a semiconductor without an applied electrical field. The quantum effect could eventually ...

Light typically interacts with a material the same way whether it enters through the front or the back—like polarized ...

Check out this fun activity on this week's The Science of It, where young minds can learn about reflection and refraction ...

Friction normally needs two surfaces rubbing together. Physicists just proved light can do the job all by itself.

Using the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory, astronomers are beginning the largest and deepest survey of the sky. What will they ...

A photon is a single particle of light, and under normal circumstances, it can’t be divided. But a photon is also not a ...

Kennesaw State University physics student Matt Bonvissuto has taken what he has learned on campus to the National High ...