When two black holes merge or two neutron stars collide, gravitational waves can be generated. They spread at the speed of ...

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

Scientists have created a soft wireless implant that uses tiny flashes of light to send information straight into the brain, ...

Scientists have recently discovered an interaction between an electromagnetic wave and its own magnetic component as it ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is estimated to account for most of ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a black hole, they glow with fierce intensity across the light spectrum. Now, a ...

We live in a world where smartphones last for about 2.5 years, and even the best light bulbs fizzle out unexpectedly when you need them the most. That said, here is one bulb defying the odds, a ...

Light plays an important role in many aspects of our lives, from our sleep cycles to mental health. If our bodies don’t get the proper light we need, it can cause a chemical change in the brain that ...

For half a year, Joe Hollier has been living without a phone. At least, without anything you'd recognize as a phone. He carries around a pocketable device, the color of graphite, that makes calls and ...

Red light therapy — also known as low-level laser therapy or infrared light — is an emerging non-invasive fat removal treatment. While it may sound too good to be true, proponents of red light therapy ...

Light therapy can be defined as exposure to daylight or specific wavelengths of light for a prescribed amount of time in order to treat seasonal affective disorder, acne, and a myriad of other ...