Kimberly Hansen, collections manager of flowering plants, wears gloves to protect her hands as she shows off deadly pong pong ...

Beams of light that can be guided into corkscrew-like shapes called optical vortices are used today in a range of ...

Scientists in Japan have uncovered a surprising twist, literally, in how molecules organize themselves. By introducing tiny leftover fragments from previous assemblies, they discovered a way to flip ...

Budding young scientists got to present their experiments Wednesday during a science fair at the Degenstein Community Library in Sunbury. The SUN PA Homeschool Group held the event for homeschool and ...

The STEM team at St. Ann School held their last event of the school year last Friday. They were exploring Snell's Law and angles of light reflection using lasers.

Magicians have long exploited quirks in our perception of the world to make us experience the impossible. Now, cognitive psychology is exploring how they do it and revealing fresh insights into how ou ...

Computers that use photons rather than electrons to manipulate data promise greater speed and energy efficiency, and the ...

Two companies have announced photonic devices that could solve specific real-world problems faster and with less energy than conventional computers.

"Milky seas” are one of the rarest reported forms of bioluminescence. A new scientific database may finally reveal the ...

But a team of researchers at Harvard has recognized that there are some behaviors that are so instinctual that it's possible to induce animals to act as if they were robotic. Or mostly robotic, at ...