Quantum materials exhibit remarkable emergent properties when they are excited by external sources. However, these excited ...

MIT physicists have demonstrated a new form of magnetism that could one day be harnessed to build faster, denser, and less ...

Abell S1063 is so massive that the light from distant galaxies bends around it, allowing it to act as a magnifying glass to ...

(Read about nature’s living fireworks—animals that bioluminesce.) If you shine a light on a comb jelly, light refracted off its moving cilia might be mistaken for bioluminescence. Their true ...

and muddies the distinction between nature and technology. His new work seeks to bring attention to natural phenomena and ways of being through movements of light. Poised at his computer ...

The surprise discovery of a huge cloud of molecular gas — the stuff that forms stars — just 300 light-years away is opening up new ways to study the conditions that enable star birth.

even as the light and weather (and emotions and circumstances) constantly change the surface. Mindfulness of clouds and sky is another nature-based practice you might try. Lizabeth Roemer ...

A mysterious spiraling blue light illuminated the night skies over Europe on Monday. The cosmic whirlpool was captured in stunning video and appears to have been created by the SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

An odd solid that can flow like a fluid has been created from light for the first time. Studying it will help researchers better understand exotic quantum states of matter. “We actually made lig ...

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever observed in nature. Most of life’s engines run on sunlight. Photons filter ...

The San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden (SLOBG) is continuing its 3rd annual Nature Nights— an immersive outdoor experience featuring new holiday light exhibits, live music, food vendors ...