Celebrity-backed devices promise meditative ‘sober trips’. Researchers are studying how rhythmic light reshapes visual experience and mood.

Astronomers with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) have used data from the project to make the ...

Light is an unusually rich carrier of information. Its direction of travel, wavelength, and polarization can all be used to ...

Scientists have pulled off a feat long considered out of reach: getting light to mimic the famous quantum Hall effect. In ...

Astronomers have unveiled one of the most ambitious maps yet of the early universe, revealing a vast "sea of light" between galaxies that had remained otherwise hidden in previous surveys.

Researchers at NYU have developed a way to use light to precisely direct how microscopic particles assemble into crystals. The findings, published today (February 24) in the Cell Press journal Chem, ...

Red light therapy has gone from dermatology clinics to the wellness world, promising everything from younger-looking skin and thicker hair to weight loss, pain relief, better sleep, and even improved ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.

Re-creating a piece of the universe in a bottle might sound like science fiction, but it’s exactly what Linda Losurdo did. Losurdo, a doctoral student in materials and plasma physics at the University ...

(Left) High-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy (HR-STEM) images confirm the uniform dispersion of iridium (Ir) single atoms without detectable aggregation. (Right) Compared with ...