Laser light can physically distort Janus TMD materials, revealing how their asymmetrical structure amplifies light-driven forces. These effects could power breakthroughs in photonic chips, sensors, ...

In this video, I attempt to create a giant glow stick using safe, high-level principles behind how real glow sticks work.

Researchers built a silver-grooved chip that channels laser energy into nanometer-spaced peaks, beating the diffraction limit and aiding light-matter studies.

A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has now been carried out with sound for the first time. Research by physicists in ...

A team of Concordia researchers has developed the first micromotors capable of moving through the air using only light as ...

Climate change and rising authoritarian threats put our future at risk. Bill McKibben discusses his book Here Comes the Sun and explains how solar energy, local action, and civic engagement can drive ...

Seven high school seniors from Westchester are taking their research to the national stage after applying to one of the ...

Using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, researchers generated plasma fireballs to simulate blazar jets. The beams stayed ...

This summer, a small number of invasive Mediterranean fruit flies were detected in San Jose. In response, the state started ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown “hook-like” domain in the tail of the kinesin-2 motor protein that explains how these molecular machines select the right cargo inside cells.

Joseph Wright of Derby was one of the first people to document public scientific lectures during the Enlightenment period.