Film programmer Raphael Martinez promotes discomfort, context, and conversation with Optical Noise, a trio of cult double features at Facets.

The animals' camouflaging capabilities have long inspired humans. The new material could one day help researchers improve ...

Liquids and solutions may look simple, but on the molecular scale they are constantly shifting and reorganizing. When sugar dissolves in water, each sugar molecule quickly becomes surrounded by fast ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

Physicists have engineered photons that behave as if they inhabit a space far richer than the familiar three dimensions, ...

A single atom as a movable slit: Researchers realize Einstein's thought experiment in original form, observing ...

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

Researchers have finally resolved a century-old debate over the famous "double slit" experiment, according to new research.

God does not play dice with the universe,” Albert Einstein famously declared in 1927, sparking one of the most enduring ...

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...

A physicist has proposed a bold experiment that could allow gravitational waves to be manipulated using laser light. By ...