A new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2026.250149, discusses a quarter-wave geometric-phase ...

The Justice Department has issued new subpoenas in a Florida-based investigation into perceived adversaries of President ...

“For two years, I was looking at flat lines,” physicist Sebastian Pedalino recalled of a stubborn detector that refused to show anything but noise. The evening when the signal at last expanded out ...

For more than a century, scientists have known that waves can behave in ways that seem to defy common sense, from freak walls of water in the open ocean to ghostly ripples inside atoms. What has ...

Planet K2-18b, an apparent water world 124 light years away, has been seen as a promising location in the search for aliens, ...

What makes Sky Meadows one of Virginia’s best-kept secrets is this perfect combination of beauty, history, accessibility, and relative obscurity. You get a world-class outdoor experience without the ...

Neutron stars are ultra-dense remnants of massive stars that collapsed after supernova explosions and are made up mostly of ...

Lasers, devices that emit intense beams of coherent light in specific directions, are widely used in research settings and are central components of various technologies, including optical clocks (i.e ...

You're probably here because someone in the 2026 Super Bowl between the Patriots and Seahawks just committed an egregious pass interference penalty, as dictated by the officials. Or you're here ...

The U.S.'s latest involvement in Venezuela's government is part of a long tradition of U.S. interference – from economic sanctions to covert operations to overthrow governments – in that region. It's ...

Researchers have found a way to mimic lightspeed when photographing an object. The method involves stitching together many thin “slices” of light reflecting off the object. Photography—itself a ...