The Mystery of the Nighttime Living Room Illuminated by White Light and the Body ClockWhen spending time in the living room ...

A five-year research program will explore new ways to understand and control light traveling through turbulent and complex ...

Freezing the liquid core of an optical fiber produced an extreme environment where light and sound interact more than 1,000 times more strongly than in ordinary fibers. Researchers used the effect to ...

Scientists propose a new way of implementing a neural network with an optical system which could make machine learning more sustainable in the future. The researchers at the Max Planck Institute for ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising hidden ability of light that allows it to develop spinning, twisting behavior as it travels through empty space, without special lenses, mirrors, or materials.

From the movement of stars to light streaming through stained-glass windows, light has long fascinated scientists and other thinkers. An exhibition at the Getty in Los Angeles explores how an emerging ...