This could enable new tech for controlling light with light, opening doors to advanced fabrication, imaging, and illumination ...

The technique works because the green laser (wavelength 532 nanometers) changes the way the crystal responds to some other ...

Can light itself cast a shadow? It may sound like a philosophical riddle, but researchers have found that under certain ...

The future of transmitting massive amounts of data digitally may be here, thanks to new technology that uses a "hurricane" of ...

Shadows are a natural consequence of opaque walls in an illuminated Universe. Light shines; photons travel until they hit an ...

The discovery, centred around controlling tiny hurricanes of light and electromagnetic fields, could revolutionise how much information we can deliver over cables.

WASHINGTON - Can light itself cast a shadow? It may sound like a philosophical riddle, but researchers have found that under certain conditions, a laser beam can act like an opaque object and cast a ...

With the help of a ruby cube and two laser beams, researchers made one ray of light cast a shadow when illuminated by the ...

Each beam has a designated crystal target, and successful alignment of all three beams is crucial to opening up the way ...

WINNIPEG - Murray Sinclair, a former judge, senator and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential ...

The tiny device uses a tightly focused beam of light to capture and manipulate cells. MIT researchers have developed a miniature, chip-based “tractor beam,” like the one that captures the Millennium ...

Scientists discovered a way to encode more data into light by creating light vortices with quasicrystals. This method could ...