A study led by UC Riverside physicist Hai-Bo Yu suggests that a new type of dark matter could explain three astrophysical ...

Acoustic metamaterials are a fast-evolving family of materials which manipulate sound waves in ever more advanced ways. Now, a team led by Changqing Xu at Nanjing Normal University in China has ...

This first post will focus on the scientists who were at the forefront of scientific research in what would become the intellectual powerhouse of Calcutta (now Kolkata), then under the control of the ...

Comparison of fentanyl test strips shows the research team’s enhanced strips (bottom) alongside commercial versions (top). In ...

A team of physicists has pushed the limits of quantum control by cooling the rotational motion of a nanoscale object to its ...

Researchers generated stable vortex light in its lowest-energy state using liquid crystal traps and optical confinement.

Researchers from the School of Physics and Astronomy have flipped a long-held assumption in optics, showing that deliberately ...

Two extremely precise experiments agree with a previously shocking measurement of just how big the proton is, which may help ...

Researchers used human and human-shaped baits to figure out how mosquitoes use cues like color and smell to change their ...

Darkness can outrun light, at least in the lab. Scientists have captured “dark points” moving faster than light, confirming a ...

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have, for the first time, measured the temporal and spectral shape ...

Nikon has a new CEO and President – and the imaging giant’s new leader has an extensive background in lenses and optics. On ...