In 1927, the term "picture element," later abbreviated to "pixel," appeared for the first time in the American technology ...

Pixels are one of the building blocks of modern technology. They create the images we see on television screens, smartphones, ...

A dark point inside a beam of light should not be much of a traveler. Yet in a new experiment, some of those points appeared ...

Fig. 1 THz wave generation from MoS2 through quantum interference. (a) Schematic diagram of THz wave generation from MoS2 under two-color light excitation at normal incidence. (b) THz waveforms ...

A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has now been carried out with sound for the first time. Research by physicists in Leiden has produced new insights that could be applied in 5G devices and the ...

When two black holes merge or two neutron stars collide, gravitational waves can be generated. They spread at the speed of light and cause tiny distortions in space-time. Albert Einstein predicted ...

Imperial physicists have recreated the famous double-slit experiment, which showed light behaving as particles and a wave, in time rather than space. The experiment relies on materials that can change ...

When Louis de Broglie postulated that we need to ‘associate a periodic phenomenon with any isolated portion of matter or energy’, he predicted that these new ideas would ‘solve almost all the problems ...

Tim Kovachy is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and at the Center for Fundamental Physics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA. Quantum mechanics predicts that single ...

Researchers have developed a thin film device, fabricated by spray coating, that can block electromagnetic radiation with the flip of a switch. The breakthrough, enabled by versatile two-dimensional ...