(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the University of Warsaw's Faculty of Physics have superposed two light beams twisted in the clockwise direction to create anti-clockwise twists in the dark regions of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the night of May 16, a large beam of light resembling a spotlight was seen shooting into the night sky in the Southwest, but ...

One year after wildfires ignited across Malibu, Pacific Palisades, and Altadena, Los Angeles paused to remember and to look forward. From Palisades Village, three beams of light rose into the night ...

Beams of light that can be guided into corkscrew-like shapes called optical vortices are used today in a range of applications. Pushing the limits of structured light, Harvard applied physicists in ...

Lasers, devices that emit intense beams of coherent light in specific directions, are widely used in research settings and are central components of various technologies, including optical clocks (i.e ...

Sacramento residents were treated to the sight of light beams in the sky Tuesday night, despite it not yet being basketball season. Bright beams of light could be seen emanating from the California ...

In a discovery that challenges conventional optics, scientists have managed to make a laser beam cast its own shadow—a feat previously thought impossible, as light typically passes through other light ...

A team of scientists has found that the narrow beam of a laser, under specific conditions, can cast a shadow — a counterintuitive finding that could open the doors for new applications of optical ...

An Aug. 10 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a beam of light connecting the ground and sky, with smoke billowing around it and a body of water in front of it. “This photo is circulating ...