A new kind of mirror is emerging from quantum physics labs, one that exists not as a chunk of polished glass but as a ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Physicists have finally turned a long standing thought experiment into a laboratory reality, showing that electromagnetic ...

An unexpected discovery in a Harvard lab has led to a breakthrough insight into choosing an unconventional material, silica, ...

Using just a few hundred identical atoms, physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have pieced together the world’s lightest mirror. Despite having a surface measured in mere microns ...

Capasso himelf called the discovery “a counterintuitive breakthrough in nanotechnology.” He added, “We have demonstrated in ...