(Da-kuk/E+/Getty Images) The fundamentals of light continue to fascinate scientists and reveal new secrets – including how ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In a mind-warping milestone experiment, scientists have been able to ...

Scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have discovered a surprisingly simple way to create exotic light ...

University of Illinois Physics Professor Paul Kwiat and members of his research group have developed a new tool for precision measurement at the nanometer scale in scenarios where background noise and ...

When you shine a flashlight into a glass of water, the beam bends. That simple observation, familiar since ancient times, hides one of the oldest puzzles in physics: what really happens to the ...

There's an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which John de Lancie's nearly-omnipotent alien character "Q" is stripped of his powers and banished to the Enterprise as a human because fans of ...

First sight?: CERN's ATLAS collaboration claims to see light-by-light scattering for first time The idea that particles of light can interact with one another – known as light-by-light scattering – ...

Can darkness really travel faster than light? A surprising new physics experiment suggests it can—at least in a very unusual way. Scientists observed dark regions within light waves moving faster than ...