(Phys.org)—It was an impressive week for researchers combining physics and engineering as one team of engineers took a big step toward using light instead of wires inside computers—they've created a ...

What is heat, and what is useful work if a machine consists only of an atom and light particles? In modern quantum technologies, this kind of question connects thermodynamics with quantum physics.

A new wave equation suggests accelerating waves can move only toward positive time, offering a possible microscopic explanation for why time has a preferred direction. ・The framework treats changing ...

Researchers used light to reveal the collective motion of electrons forming a Wigner crystal. Credit: Enrique Sahagún, Scixel / University of Basel, Department of Physics Optical measurements can ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. For the first time, scientists have watched groups of three photons ...

First sight?: CERN's ATLAS collaboration claims to see light-by-light scattering for first time The idea that particles of light can interact with one another – known as light-by-light scattering – ...

There's an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which John de Lancie's nearly-omnipotent alien character "Q" is stripped of his powers and banished to the Enterprise as a human because fans of ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In a vacuum like space, the speed of light is just over 186,280 miles ...

Quantum physics is arguably the greatest intellectual triumph in the history of human civilization, but to most people it seems like it's too remote and abstract to matter. This is largely a ...