Scientists are learning to engineer light in rich, multidimensional ways that dramatically increase how much information a single photon can carry. This leap could make quantum communication more ...

Opening moments of games can often feel long and slow, and may even be boring as the game must teach you how to play it first thing. They’re a necessary evil, but there's a new high bar, as the new ...

Scientists were surprised to discover cassowaries glow under ultraviolet light. It may help the birds distinguish between different species. The casque of a southern cassowary glows blue-green in ...

Optical vortices—light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM)—are characterized by helical wavefronts and phase singularities. While they have been widely studied in recent decades, two ...

The flood does not arrive as a surprise. It returns, following the same swollen rivers and monsoon skies, loosening the ground and entering homes that were never meant to resist it. Walls are untied ...

In 2021, dermatologist David Ozog was on holiday with his family in the Bahamas, when his 18-year-old son had a massive stroke. The teenager was airlifted to Florida, and then to Chicago for surgery.

Many clients who move into charitable giving do so reactively—responding to requests from friends, supporting their alma mater or contributing to causes featured in the news. As their philanthropic ...

There's an all-new rule set for the 2026 Formula 1 season that introduces an entirely new car that's smaller than before, has a greater emphasis on electrification, and — crucially for our purposes — ...

Applied physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated a new way to structure light in custom, repeatable, three-dimensional patterns, ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. In the current wave of generative AI innovation, industries that live in documents and text ...

Creating living spaces in a world between on and off. Image Courtesy of GIRA Across recent architectural discourse, interior design has been centered on how spaces shape psychological and atmospheric ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...