Amazon’s best under-$20 stocking stuffers also make for practical holiday gifts, with prices starting at just $8. It’s not ...

Light is usually treated as something simple, a clean beam that either shines or does not. At the quantum level, however, ...

From repairing damaged retinas in the human eye to burning precision holes in industrial diamonds, the list of uses for laser light has grown steadily since the fierce, pure beams were first projected ...

A miner's light is a practical, inexpensive tool for many employees at your tire dealership or service shop. Here's why this simple device is so useful. The phrase "miner's light" probably elicits ...

Recharging a smartphone has become a part of everyday life for most people. But while the device’s display will usually tell you it is charging, it won’t tell you how long you’ll be twiddling your ...

Scientists at the University of Twente in the Netherlands have found a way to see through opaque barriers, Nature reports. This is done by recording wavelengths from visible light, which can pass ...

When you make a phone call or browse the internet, chances are a lot of the communication happens over fiber-optic links transmitting billions of bits every second. A recent experiment shows it may be ...

Fans of Robert Eggers’ films — The Witch, The Lighthouse, and now The Northman — know he goes to extremes to make his visuals as real and lived-in as possible, using extensive research, natural light, ...

A chip-scale interface entangles light and electronic states without cryogenic cooling, bringing quantum networking hardware ...

Researchers have debunked the decade-old myth of metals being useless in photonics - the science and technology of light - with their findings, expected to lead to many applications in the field of ...