Quantum technologies, which leverage the principles of quantum mechanics, have been found to outperform their classical ...

A controversial new ruling from the Federal Communications Commission leaves no one responsible for regulating light ...

Researchers have discovered that the retina uses an unexpected communication network that lets separate visual pathways cooperate instead of working alone. A newly identified "commander" cell appears ...

We’re just beginning to decode this faint optical “signature of life” and what it could reveal about health, disease, and the future of medicine.

Robert Massey of the Royal Astronomical Society said it would be "absolutely the destruction of a central part of human ...

Quantum properties of light are extremely delicate. When researchers attempt to measure them, even small losses on the way to ...

The night sky may soon acquire a switch. A California startup plans to send an enormous, steerable mirror into orbit and use it to bounce sunlight onto selected patches of Earth after sunset. On July ...

Somewhere between a Mr. Burns scheme and every plan Cobra Commander ever pitched sits the idea of launching giant mirrors into space so we can shine sunlight back onto Earth after dark. It also ...

A giant mirror to create “sunlight on demand” was just approved by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), ...

Today's Mars rovers typically drive at about 500 to 1,000 feet per hour — roughly the length of one to three football fields — and only for short stints at a time. NASA engineers say they could go so ...

People use their bodies—not just their brains—to think. So the MIT Project on Embodied Education brings movement to the classroom and academics to the gym, the river, the studio, and even the ...

Flashes during mirror repointing could disrupt pilots and drivers; The light could also disrupt circadian rhythms of plants, ...