Rice University researchers studying a class of atom-thin semiconductors known as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

A flash of light hits a simple iron crystal. In the space of a trillionth of a second, its magnetic behavior shifts, as if ...

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...

A ‘superflare’ 10 trillion times brighter than the Sun is confirmed as the record-holder for both luminosity and distance.

According to calculations from IFLScience's resident astronomer, Dr Alfredo Carpineti, using data from NASA's Eyes on the Solar System, this will occur on November 13, 2026. After this date, the probe ...

Researchers from IISST used simple polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) to partially correct a turbulent laser beam and restore its ...

Physicists have uncovered how direct atom-atom interactions can amplify superradiance, the collective burst of light from ...

A global team of experts from academia and industry has joined forces in a landmark Consensus Statement on next-generation ...

MOST is unlike any spectroscope ever built. It can unravel the light of 2,400 celestial objects simultaneously into 18,000 ...

Oxford Instruments today announced the launch of its witec360 Raman microscope with the Hexalight spectrometer, setting a new ...