Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

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

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

A new chip-based quantum memory uses nanoprinted “light cages” to trap light inside atomic vapor, enabling fast, reliable ...

A new chip-based quantum memory uses 3D-printed “light cages” to store light in atomic vapor with high precision. Quantum ...

Shaped quantum light is turning ordinary photons into powerful tools for the future of technology.

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

A device smaller than a grain of dust may help unlock the kind of quantum computers people have only dreamed about. Built on ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary ...

Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper shows ...

Tiny 3D-printed “light cages” are giving researchers a new way to catch and hold individual particles of light on a chip, a ...