Perhaps one of the most famous experiments in physics has been giving us the wrong message all these years. For nearly two ...

Collide light with light, and poof, you get matter and antimatter. It sounds like a simple idea, but it turns out to be surprisingly hard to prove. A team of physicists is now claiming the first ...

People love the rainbow of ROYGBIV colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Human eyes perceive visible light as this array of colors. You may notice that some colors you can ...

A new paper suggests that we could search for photons created by gravitational waves. A specific physical response turns gravitons from these waves into photons of electromagnetism. Scientists believe ...

Scientists have discovered an elegant way of manipulating light using a 'synthetic' Lorentz force -- which in nature is responsible for many fascinating phenomena including the Aurora Borealis.

How does sunscreen work on the atomic level? Summer 2023 in the Northern Hemisphere is on track to be the hottest on record, and the sun is blazing in the sky. One way to deal with it is to slap on ...