When you hear the phrase “spinning light,” you probably think of a particularly unpleasant evening. Researchers at the University of Minnesota (UM) have other thoughts on the matter, as they’re using ...

Top researchers from across the country are developing new technology to control an unusual property of light that could make it possible to channel through fog, murky water and thermal turbulence, ...

Today I would like to present the turbine-powered optical isolator, a steampunk-sounding bit of hardware that only allows light to pass in one direction. That, I must admit, is a sentence I never ...

Light can generate an electrical current in semiconductor materials. This is how solar cells generate electricity from sunlight and how smart phone cameras can take photographs. To collect the ...

An international team of researchers led by Lancaster University has discovered a highly efficient mechanism for shaking magnets using very short light pulses, shorter than a trillionth of a second.

The article was posted online by Nature Photonics on October 19 and can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-018-0266-5 Gyroscopes are devices that ...

Scientists have discovered a massive, rotating galactic filament stretching about 50 million light-years across, containing roughly 300 galaxies that are all spinning ...

A new tiny optical gyroscope fits on the tip of your finger and could find its way into drones and spacecraft in the future. Gyroscopes are devices that help vehicles, drones, and wearable and ...