Physicists are learning to carve laser beams into intricate shapes that can grab hold of electrons and push them with a ...

Deep inside the brain, every thought and memory begins with a burst of electrical activity. For years, scientists have tried ...

The Exciting Science Show comes to Torch Theatre on February 18, featuring live experiments, volcanoes and family fun this half-term.

Physicists from Trinity College Dublin believe new insights into the behavior of light may offer a new means of solving one ...

Step into the hidden science lab in your kitchen with five easy experiments that explain refraction, surface tension, ...

Liquids and solutions may look simple, but on the molecular scale they are constantly shifting and reorganizing. When sugar dissolves in water, each sugar molecule quickly becomes surrounded by fast ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have, for the first time, demonstrated a technique that synchronises ultrashort ...

Life truly is radiant, according to an experiment conducted by researchers from the University of Calgary and the National Research Council of Canada.