The original double-slit experiment, first performed in 1801 by Thomas Young, showed that light behaves as a wave. Later experiments demonstrated that light also behaves as particles, revealing ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking technique called RAVEN that can capture the full complexity of an ultra-intense ...

In this extract from the new book Beautiful Experiments: An Illustrated History of Experimental Science, science writer Philip Ball explains how Isaac Newton transformed our understanding of light.

More information: J. J. Choi et al, First Direct Search for Light Dark Matter Using the NEON Experiment at a Nuclear Reactor, Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.021802 ...

The analysis confirmed that both the input and output of the experiment were single quanta of energy. “They actually use quantum light to show that the energy absorption is a quantum event that ...

This illustration shows the IXPE spacecraft, at right, observing blazar Markarian 501, at left. A blazar is a black hole surrounded by a disk of gas and dust with a bright jet of high-energy ...

I HAVE proposed1 that coherent storage of absorbed light energy in optically non-active modes may be important in photosynthesis. For in this way energy could be transferred to electrons ...

Nuclear fusion and plasma physics research are carried out in more than 50 countries, and recently researchers have finally achieved scientific energy gain in a fusion experiment for the first ...