Celebrity-backed devices promise meditative ‘sober trips’. Researchers are studying how rhythmic light reshapes visual experience and mood.

In physics, the classical "Hall effect," discovered in the late 19th century, describes how a transverse voltage is generated ...

Astronomers with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) have used data from the project to make the ...

Research shows that a phenomenon called St. Elmo’s Fire, which occurs during thunderstorms, may be much more common than ...

Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Mars shine together after sunset in early March, with Mercury at its best of 2026.

A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing ...

In late winter, the zodiacal light is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere (false dusk) and in the pre-dawn ...

Researchers have built a paper-thin chip that converts infrared light into visible light and directs it precisely, all without mechanical motion. The design overcomes a long-standing efficiency-versus ...

Thunderstorms can generate weak electrical discharges on the plants underneath, but until now, they had never been observed in nature ...

Red light therapy has gone from dermatology clinics to the wellness world, promising everything from younger-looking skin and thicker hair to weight loss, pain relief, better sleep, and even improved ...