Where starlight doesn't reach, new things are born: For the first time, an international research team has directly measured ...

Everyone knows the number for the speed of light — but almost nobody knows the uncomfortable truth behind it. Measuring light ...

Measuring conditions in volatile clouds of superheated gases known as plasmas is central to pursuing greater scientific ...

A needle-thin, flexible brain implant is giving researchers a new way to interact with multiple brain regions simultaneously.

A breakthrough optical design allows quantum computers to read information in parallel, a key step toward building ...

A new optical device allows researchers to generate and switch between two stable, donut-shaped light patterns called ...

A new type of brain implant may have implications for both brain research and future treatments of neurological diseases such ...

Physicists have found a way to measure how long ultra-fast quantum events actually take—without using a clock at all.

Ultraviolet and near-infrared light are widely used in modern technologies but are invisible to the human eye. Researchers ...

EPFL physicists have found a way to measure the time involved in quantum events and found it depends on the symmetry of the ...

New research has found when plant leaves physically touch each other, they seem to form a biological signalling network to ...

After sporadic service disruptions, repairs — and a shutdown — are set for Saturday, to make the line more resilient should a ...