Scientists have made a surprising discovery: they have managed to manipulate light particles in such a way that they can ...

Radiation within the visible spectrum can appear black if it is low in power – more specifically, lower in power than its ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

By Michelle Spear When an 84-year-old man in Hong Kong went to hospital with an enlarged prostate, doctors were startled to ...

When the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton pointed its telescope at two unidentified sources of light in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, scientists were able to confirm what seemed an ...

There are trillions of charged particles – protons and electrons , the basic building blocks of matter – whizzing around above your head at any given ...

Auroras have long mystified humanity. Now that we know what they are and why they happen, we can better predict how best to ...

Turing patterns offer insight into (among other things) the patterns we find on animals, whether it’s the splotches on ...

Scientists have unlocked the secret world of dark excitons — tiny energy carriers crucial for the future of solar power and ...

Washington State University has developed a new strain of grass. And no, it’s definitely not for smoking.