The Galileo Project has released the commissioning data from its first Observatory at Harvard University in a new scientific ...

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An experimental setup built at the Technion Faculty of Physics demonstrates the transfer of atoms from one place to another ...

Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...

When it comes to electrically conductive nanomaterials, graphene—stronger and lighter than steel and more conductive than ...

Rainbows may be a trick of the eye, but they’re also based in fascinating optical physics. Here's how they work and why we ...

A breakthrough in nano-optical sensor technology now enables precise ... the research team drew inspiration from the ...

Optical computing aims to replace electricity with light to achieve faster, energy-saving computing. Researchers have now developed an optical programmable logic array (PLA) that overcomes key hurdles ...

A rare atmospheric optical phenomenon called a "glory" was caught on video during descent on a Manchester, New ...

A rare atmospheric optical phenomenon, called "glory" was caught on video during decent on a Boston-bound flight on Monday. "I flew back from Florida this past Monday and as we started our decent, I ...

new physical phenomena come into play. This might pave a way for future light sources and photon–photon colliders. The use of optical phase sensitive amplifiers (PSA) has been shown to allow ...