A recent study published in an online issue of Physical Review Research examines the connections between the different properties of light, specifically pertaining to whether light acts as a wave or ...

Light is well known to exhibit both wave-like and particle-like properties, as imaged here in this 2015 photograph. What's less well appreciated is that matter particles also exhibit those wave-like ...

Scientists confirm optical phase singularities move faster than light without breaking Einstein's rules, opening paths to ...

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 ...

Scientists experimentally confirmed what we’ve known to be true for half a century—darkness can “travel” faster than light.

Everything on the electromagnetic spectrum has some properties of both waves and particles, but it’s difficult to imagine a ...

Researchers at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, have directly tracked “dark points” in light waves, spots where the ...

A dark point inside a wave of light sounds like a contradiction. It is also something researchers say they have now viewed in ...

A team of physicists has reimagined one of science’s most iconic experiments—but in the dimension of time. Researchers at Imperial College London have taken the classic double-slit test and turned it ...

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving some mathematical graffiti into Dublin's Broome Bridge in 1843. But in his ...

In the early 1960s, a new class of astronomical object known as the quasi-stellar radio source, or quasar, was revealed. As the name suggests, early observations noted that these objects looked like ...

Despite being tightly confined in a microscopic volume, a new kind of disorder allows optical signals to suddenly show up at far away regions. Such abrupt transport had previously been considered ...