Tiny tubes of carbon that emit single photons from just one point along their length have been made in a deterministic manner ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

A new discovery shows that messy, stray light can be used to clean up quantum systems instead of disrupting them. University ...

A team of physicists has uncovered a surprising new way to explore one of science's greatest challenges: uniting the two fundamental theories that explain how our universe works—Einstein's theory of ...

A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change ...

Modern life runs on light. Fiber-optic cables move data across continents, lasers guide surgeries, and photons sit at the ...

Using a groundbreaking new technique, researchers have unveiled the first detailed image of a photon — a single particle of light — ever taken. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Does the universe notice that we're paying attention to a quantum experiment? The answer goes against everything we thought we knew.

An international research team reports the discovery of "hidden order" in systems that are disordered in space and time. The paper is published in the journal Nature Materials.

Later work by others built on this, showing that these energy levels are a fundamental part of how the universe works at the ...