Scientists have, for the first time, experimentally proven that angular momentum is conserved even when a single photon splits into two, pushing quantum physics to its most fundamental limits. Using ...

A property of laser light first predicted in 1963 by the future Nobel laureate Roy Glauber has been verified by physicists in Italy. Marco Bellini and colleagues from the University of Florence have ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a one-quarter segment of the ...

Convention has it that quantum mechanics and thermodynamics cannot be true simultaneously - so say scientists at the University of Twente ("UT"), The Netherlands. But now, in a new journal paper, UT ...

Newly developed hardware for making high-transmission optical fiber in zero gravity has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS). Launched last week on board a Cygnus cargo ship carrying more ...