Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

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Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper shows ...

Scientists are learning to engineer light in rich, multidimensional ways that dramatically increase how much information a ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Alex May, whose research explores the intersection of quantum ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of physics.

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A new study in Nature Physics has turned an old problem on its head by reporting a way to use the noisy interactions between ...

A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have made a breakthrough in quantum computing that elegantly bypasses the ...