Physicists have taken a step that sounds like science fiction: they have coaxed light into behaving as a “supersolid,” a ...

The first Lighting Xi'an Festival, named Geometry of Light, was launched at Xi'an MIXC, a high-end shopping mall situated in the heart of Xi'an's southern axis, Dec 9, 2025. [Photo provided to ...

Changing light's polarization can reverse the structure of a patterned light field, opening a new way to control geometry and information in optics. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Light can be bent, focused, or ...

Congratulations on noticing an effect called superluminal expansion, a phenomenon we see in a light echo. The echo appears to us to expand at many times the speed of light, seemingly violating the ...

For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical illusion called the Terrell-Penrose effect. When you purchase through links on ...

Through installations that play with scaffolding divisions, flowing projections, page flips, frame filters, and symbolic "blossoms of life," artists reveal light's true form: a spiritual geometry born ...