We just got the clearest snapshot yet of the first light that streamed through the Universe. The results? We now have a clearer window into the infancy of the Universe, revealing with greater ...

When light passes through a material, the spatial arrangement of the material’s atoms can cause the light to undergo reflection, refraction, dispersion, or diffusion. Researchers from Heriot ...

For the first time, researchers transformed light into a quantum crystalline structure to create a "supersolid" that's both solid and liquid at the same time. Here’s what that means, and why it ...

Until now, scientists had only seen this state in extremely cold gases. This new experiment proves that light can also behave this way. As reported by Newsweek, physicists Antonio Gianfate of CNR ...