Gravitational lenses bend and focus light from the more distant cosmos, offering astronomers a cheat code for chronicling the ...

Video backgrounds can increase mental tiredness while nature-themed backdrops ‘might be the ideal choice’, scientists say.

Researchers have developed a new way to see organs within a body by rendering overlying tissues transparent to visible light. The counterintuitive process—a topical application of food-safe dye ...

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Earlier this year, the most luminous object in the universe was discovered 12 billion light-years away: a quasar so bright that ... “We don’t understand everything very well, and that makes science ...

Scientists build a new light source for quantum communications by combining existing technologies together to create a stronger and more robust quantum signal. Scientists have created an ...

"As is the case with many findings in behavioral science, we know little about the effects of communicating this consensus beyond the United States. Our study now takes an extensive and detailed ...

Compare the brightness of two light sources using an oil spot on a white card. When an oil spot on a card is illuminated equally from both sides, it mysteriously disappears. This allows you to compare ...

A splatter of stars glows faintly at almost 3 million light-years away in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Known as the Tucana Dwarf for lying in the constellation Tucana, this dwarf ...