Photons are particles of light, or waves, or something like that, right? [Mithuna Yoganathan] explains this conundrum in more detail than you probably got in your high school physics class. While ...

First off, my name is a misnomer. I love physics like Lennie likes bunnies. So I was wondering today about the following: What happens to the photons that hit your eye and are recognized as light? The ...

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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Robert Lea created by Canva Observing the interactions between dark matter and so-called ...

Everything we visualize about space, including stars, planets, gases, and even galaxies, make up just a small fraction of the universe’s total mass. The rest is invisible, silent, and frustratingly ...

Lighten up, people: a fascinating new paper has dropped that describes the shape of a single photon, the smallest possible form of energy in an electromagnetic field that we commonly know as light.

Do you know what photons are? They are one of the fundamental particles of light (but also other electromagnetic radiation), so small they don't actually have a mass. Yet we interact with them on a ...

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute have developed an efficient new method to drive the quantum entanglement of photons, and demonstrated it by entangling a record number of photons. The technique ...

Or rather, is it possible to collide two energy particles in such a way that the result is a photon with specific known properties (e.g. direction, speed)? What I'm thinking of is the ability to cause ...

Light is usually treated as something simple, a clean beam that either shines or does not. At the quantum level, however, ...

A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...