The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...

While William Rowan Hamilton isn’t a household name like, say, Einstein or Hawking, he might have been. It turns out the ...

A plasmon is a quantum of plasma oscillations. These plasma oscillations, also known as Langmuir waves, are rapid ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

When you shine a flashlight into a glass of water, the beam bends. That simple observation, familiar since ancient times, ...

Liz Nielsen, who makes prismatic, one-of-a-kind "light paintings," will show at Terrain Biennial Newburgh and has upcoming ...

While trying to examine forces on single biomolecules with great precision, researchers have solved their requirement of a dual trap optical tweezers system by inventing their own version of the ...

At the Neev Literature Festival, the authors of Sugar Changed the World, among other books, spoke about working together as a ...

Gillian Schutte follows the transformative journey of the atom from a symbol of destruction to a beacon of sustainable energy ...