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 ...

Navy breakthrough boosts optical clarity in supersonic environments, enhancing laser targeting and defense against high-speed ...

Inspired by sea sponges, researchers created living micro-lenses from bacteria that may improve medical and industrial ...

The countries that will compete at next year's Winter Olympics in Italy are starting to come into focus after last week's World Men's Curling Championship in Moose Jaw, Sask. With the Olympics ...

"We will focus like a laser beam on the 83% of global trade that is beyond the United States," von der Leyen said during a press briefing in Brussels.

For me, the infamous “boob light” still hasn’t made a case for why it still belongs in most homes. It isn’t the most stylish, modern or interesting fixture when it comes to overhead ...

As most people know, it is possible to use a magnifying glass to focus the Sun's light and ... This law says that if you have light coming into a system from a bunch of different angles and ...

Instead of hanging hummingbird feeders from the arms, glue or otherwise affix small bowls or tea cups into the spots on the arms that once held light bulbs. If you decide to spray paint the ramekins, ...