A climate in which science, art, and culture flourished in the Golden Age of Islam and the conditions that foretold the Age’s ...

Light is one of the most critical environmental factors influencing plant growth, development, and productivity. Optimizing light conditions has long been a ...

Sidney Perkowitz uncovers the pioneering work of the German physicist and philosopher Grete Hermann, who sparred with the ...

PCR genetic analysis has been in the spotlight since COVID-19, but light is now further facilitating PCR-free methods. Osaka ...

A research group at the University of Stuttgart has manipulated light through its interaction with a metal surface so that it ...

Science and philosophy explain why a color is objectively real, even when people see the same shade differently.

Researchers at Rice University have developed a sophisticated 3D photonic-crystal cavity that can trap and control light in ...

Optical rotatum” is the term researchers coined to describe a newly discovered structure of light. Beams of light that can be shaped into corkscrew-like forms, known as optical vortices, are used ...

The system, called Oz, works by activating cone cells in the retina -- in short, firing laser pulses at researchers' eyes -- ...

Meet "olo": a vivid, hyper-saturated blue-green that can't be captured by screens or paint.

The color, dubbed olo, is described as an intensely saturated teal. Researchers say it might have applications in ...

In episode 3 of 'What's in a name' we look at what can be lost in translation when physicists try and name the unknown.