The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...

When you shine a flashlight into a glass of water, the beam bends. That simple observation, familiar since ancient times, ...

Solving major regional and global environmental problems is a key part of sociopolitics and so environmental physics has a special role to play in the public arena. It gives students the chance to ...

In an article published in Communications Physics, researchers from the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Institute for ...

Discover how optical fibres can revolutionize AI computing with speed, efficiency, and accuracy using the physics of light.

Quantum computers will need large numbers of qubits to tackle challenging problems in physics, chemistry, and beyond. Unlike ...

Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have created an “optical sieve” capable of detecting minute nanoplastic particles. Functioning much like a test strip, this innovation is designed to provide ...

In Cambridge, Mass, last week, members of the American Physical Society and of the Optical Society of America were given a first look at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s new spectroscopic ...

Co-author Georg Winkler working on a set-up used to characterize the high-performance mirrors under vacuum. (© 2019 Barbara Mair, Universität Wien) Low-loss, highly-reflective “supermirrors” – that is ...

The core of optical clocks lies in utilizing the frequency of light for time measurement, with their working principle relying on the response of cold atoms to light. For instance, research results ...

From personalized vaccines to next-generation screening technologies, the ways the world treats and detects cancer could shift dramatically in the coming years. But there are many challenges ahead, as ...