A 'boom' of light that appears when a particle exceeds the speed of light set by a medium could, in other contexts, signal a ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...

Greetings stargazers. Everything we know about things outside of our solar system is from the light we receive. I am using ...

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

Human bodies are not quite as dark as they look. A growing body of research suggests that living tissue constantly releases ...

Human bodies are not entirely dark. A growing body of research suggests that every living person emits an ultra‑faint glow, a ...

A new study in Nature Physics has turned an old problem on its head by reporting a way to use the noisy interactions between ...

The gravitational lens JVAS B1938+666 consists of massive bodies ranging from 6.5 billion to 11 billion light-years away, ...

A new adaptive metaskin hides objects from thermal cameras in both hot and cold environments, automatically adjusting its ...

Can quantum physics enable better, cheaper, faster satellite photos? In a month or two, a startup will test a “quantum camera ...

This study constitutes a demonstration of highly textured, large-area perovskite photodiodes integrated sturdily onto ...