A study shows photon momentum enables diagonal transitions, converting indirect semiconductors like silicon into direct ones, ...

The first speaker in the Pentland Auditorium was Prof. Andrew Shepherd, from Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK), who also ...

An international team has cataloged over 500 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), rivaling the historical deep-sky catalog by Charles ...

Nanodisk of MoS2 preserves “broken inverse symmetry” to maintain optical nonlinearity. The researchers at the Department of ...

Researchers have directly observed Floquet states in semiconductors using all-optical spectroscopy under ambient conditions, ...

For Argentine-Spanish artist Felipe Pantone, superstimulation is a creative space. For his new solo show presented by ...

Nature has always left people in awe, from breathtaking stars to vibrant rainbows - one can never get enough of its splendor.

He advanced the study of a millenniums-old mystery: why the moon appears larger on the horizon than it does high in the night ...

Theoretical physics uses concepts and methods encoded in mathematical language to explain physical reality. At the Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP), we study physical systems on every scale, ...

A video of a unique optical phenomenon known as a "glory" spotted from a plane has gone viral on TikTok. Heather Reedy, a 37-year-old registered nurse based in Virginia, spotted the mesmerizing ...

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Over billions of years, the universe's stars and galaxies shined their light into space, leaving behind an imperceptibly faint night light known as the cosmic optical background. NASA's New Horizons s ...