With the help of the world's most powerful X-ray laser, a research team has achieved an important breakthrough: Using the example of the pharmaceutically active substance 2-thiouracil, they applied a ...

Light isn’t just illuminating materials anymore, it’s moving them. Scientists at Rice University have discovered that beams of light can physically shift atoms in a class of ultra-thin semiconductors ...

Astrophysicists talk a lot about gravitational lensing, one of the more fun aspects of light’s infamous particle-wave duality. The phenomenon shows, in predictable and measurable ways, how the tiny ...

Scientists have discovered a technique whereby light can be bent around corners, inspired by the way clouds scatter sunlight. This type of light-bending could lead to advances in medical imaging, ...

Did you know that gravity bends light? In 1916, Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity. And British astronomer Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington proved the truth of Einstein’s work with ...