Florida State University researchers have discovered a pathway within a certain type of molecule that limits chemical ...

The speed of light is the fastest anything can travel. What happens to a photon from a galaxy 25 million light years away on its journey toward Earth? When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Physicists from Trinity College Dublin believe new insights into the behaviour of light may offer a new means of solving one of science’s oldest challenges – how to turn heat into useful energy. Their ...

Light can do more than illuminate a material. In some cases, it can temporarily change how electrons move through it.

What if you could create new materials just by shining a light them? To most, this sounds fantastical, but to physicists ...

Human bodies are not quite as dark as they look. A growing body of research suggests that living tissue constantly releases an ultraweak glow, a stream of photons that appears to switch off when life ...