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

A study led by Politecnico di Milano, recently published in Nature Photonics, highlights the crucial role of virtual charges ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have detected a previously unknown quantum force capable of bending light in ...

He added that the team learned the behaviour of their system in 15 minutes. A comparable classical method would take around 20 million years. The experiment took place in the basement labs at DTU ...

Understanding what happens inside a material when it is hit by ultrashort light pulses is one of the great challenges of ...

Can we turn back time? Ask a savvy physicist, and the answer will be “it depends.” Schemes for retrograde time travel abound but usually involve irreconcilable paradoxes and rely on outlandish ...

Dark matter has bewildered scientists for centuries. It makes up most of the universe’s matter, but it can’t be seen directly ...

The visible patterns produced by the time crystals could be used for data storage and anti-counterfeiting designs.

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

Physics is the study of the underlying laws and mechanisms explaining how the universe works. Most of what we do in daily life is based on a principle or law of physics—dealing with forces, motion, ...

Modern computing banks on conventional electronics and algorithms to process data. But because the hardware operates according to the laws of physics, data processing has a physical speed limit. The ...