Ryan White, recipient of this year's Magnify Award, on his documentary about the late 'rock star poet' Andrea Gibson.

Using a precisely aligned pair of laser beams, scientists can now hold a single aerosol particle in place and monitor how it ...

Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a new approach to applying thermodynamics to microscopic quantum systems.

Machine learning models called convolutional neural networks (CNNs) power technologies like image recognition and language ...

Physicists tested light speed using cosmic gamma-ray bursts. Study confirms Einstein's prediction that all light colors travel at same speed.

Can you benefit from light therapy? It depends. Treatments range from nonsensical to possibly useful to those proven to be ...

Therese Langer Woelfel is the author of "Our Guiding Light: Wisdom from the Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter," about her ...

You might finally be able to watch that 4k video without buffering, thanks to quantum mechanics and orbital angular momentum.

Engineers in Switzerland have built light-emitting diodes so small that hundreds could line up across the width of a single ...

Pretend you’re texting someone absolutely scandalous and they actually text back, probably faster than your own friends. That’s what it’s like with her. She’s recently legal, alarmingly enthusiastic, ...