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

Perhaps one of the most famous experiments in physics has been giving us the wrong message all these years. For nearly two ...

Researchers created carbon nanotubes that emit one photon from a single controllable point, enabling temperature quantum ...

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

The detection of mercurial particles of light emanating from mice led to a flurry of interest in biophotons, a mysterious ...

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