Light can tie knots—literally. Engineers at Duke University have managed to manipulate laser beams to form intricate 3D patterns called optical knots, using custom-designed optics. These twisted beams ...

A team of engineers, computer scientists and ophthalmologists at the University of California, Berkeley, working with a pair of colleagues at the University of Washington, has developed a technique ...

Scientists at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have successfully produced Airy beams using ...

Back when Nvidia was a scrappy startup, CEO Jensen Huang enforced one rule: Work at the speed of light—let physics, never bureaucracy, be your only limit. He wasn’t joking. Take Nvidia’s first ...

Knots are generally understood to form due to twists and turns of long, flexible materials that keep shoes on your feet or ...