The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawai'i is the world's largest solar telescope and has ...

Scientists in Germany have crafted “skyrmion bags” of light—complex vortex-like structures—on the surface of gold by cleverly ...

An international team of researchers has developed an optical device that mimics the behavior of both black and white holes.

Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research ... This makes the new interferometer able to control the spectrum of light passing through by finely adjusting the intensity ...

Each colour within the visible light spectrum has its own narrow band of wavelength and frequency. An object appears to be black if it absorbs all the wavelengths of visible light. For example ...

A research group has manipulated light through its interaction with a metal surface so that it exhibits entirely new properties.

All waves will reflect and refract in the right circumstances. The reflection and refraction of light explains how people see images, colour and even optical illusions. Lenses - Edexcel Lenses are ...

How can we measure visible light? The electromagnetic spectrum includes all forms of light energy, known as electromagnetic radiation. (1) Different types of electromagnetic radiation such as radio ...

Physicists at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a compact laser that ...