In the three decades since CERN made Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web freely and openly available to everyone, we’ve got used to exchanging extraordinary amounts of data. One way of keeping up with ...

Due to come online later this year and packed with state-of-the-art optics, Advanced LIGO is aiming for a direct detection of gravitational waves that will open a new window on the universe, say Iain ...

Researchers have found a clever way to make quantum dots, tiny light-emitting crystals, produce streams of perfectly controlled photons without relying on expensive, complex electronics. By using a ...

Discover how optical fibres can revolutionize AI computing with speed, efficiency, and accuracy using the physics of light.

Fiber optic technology is the holy grail of high-speed, long-distance telecommunications. Still, with the continuing exponential growth of internet traffic, researchers are warning of a capacity ...

Since the 1980s, studies have increasingly shown that traditional teaching causes a deterioration in students’ conceptions of physics and of learning physics. The present study examined the influence ...

In Cambridge, Mass, last week, members of the American Physical Society and of the Optical Society of America were given a first look at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s new spectroscopic ...