Metamaterials are materials engineered to bend light in ways nature never intended. From invisibility cloaks to seeing through objects, David R. Smith’s research shows how metamaterials are changing ...

Imagine a clock where the colors aren’t from LEDs but a physics phenomenon – polarization. That’s just what [Mosivers], a physicist and electronics enthusiast, has done with the Polarizer Clock. It’s ...

A team of physicists has reimagined one of science’s most iconic experiments—but in the dimension of time. Researchers at Imperial College London have taken the classic double-slit test and turned it ...

With ultraviolet light being the workhorse of advanced chipmaking, high-resolution microscopy and next-generation optical communication technologies, improving the on-chip control over such light is ...

Sarah Kim, exhibition manager for Currents New Media, bends and manipulates rays of light in the installation Memory Planes on Wednesday in El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe in the Railyard. The piece was ...