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

MIT develops needle-free glucose monitor using light technology. Revolutionary device could replace painful finger pricks for ...

Meritus Gas Partners reports that maintaining optimal conditions in grow houses involves controlling light, temperature, ...

A programmable semiconductor changes its electronic properties under UV light and reverts under a different wavelength, ...

Twisted graphene heterostructures detect temperature with 99% accuracy, reduce thermal image errors by 46%, and execute logic ...

Water is all around us, yet its surface layer—home to chemical reactions that shape life on Earth—is surprisingly hard to study. Experiments at SLAC's X-ray laser are bringing it into focus.

Researchers at the University of Iowa have identified a new way to "purify" photons, a development that could improve both the performance and ...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is satisfied with the outcome of the Ukrainian-American talks in Berlin with the ...

Our North Pole bureau asked Globe readers to share their kids’ letters, and you delivered – both naughty and nice ...

Machine learning tools can accelerate all stages of materials discovery, from initial screening to process development.

Sunlight looks smooth and white to the naked eye, but when I break it apart with a prism or a spectrograph, it turns out to ...

Guest authors explore how Greenland’s ice sheets fared over the 12 months, including the evidence that the territory’s summer melting season is lengthening.