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 ...

Space -- the final frontier. These are the words that introduce every episode of classic "Star Trek," the show that essentially popularized the concept of traveling the stars at the speed of light – ...

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 ...

A team of physicists has discovered that virtual charges, which exist only during brief interactions with light, play a ...

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

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

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 ...