In 1845, Michael Faraday discovered what’s known today as the Faraday Effect—which describes how light and electromagnetism ...

The discovery potentially transforms what we think about how the cosmic environment influences galaxies as they form.

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Probably not either but some people were left wondering about an object that ...

How a medieval Oxford friar used light and color to find out what stars and planets are made of ...

New research shows that the magnetic part of light actively shapes how light interacts with matter, challenging a 180-year-old belief. The team demonstrated that this magnetic component significantly ...

Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell detected a strange signal from outer space that would lead to the discovery of the radio ...

Though we know light travels at 299,792,458 m/s on average, scientists have never successfully measured its one-way speed — the problem lies in synchronizing clocks across distances without already ...

This review highlights the advancement of multidimensional detection in 2D materials. It encompasses six novel dimensionalities and hybrid-dimensional photodetectors, offering guidance for developing ...

London South East prides itself on its community spirit, and in order to keep the chat section problem free, we ask all members to follow these simple rules. In these rules, we refer to ourselves as ...