The Hirshhorn presents “Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space,” an exhibition that reconsiders the role played by major Latin American artists in the development of installation art ...

Addressing a controversy first raised around 1910, two physicists have performed experiments with the aid of an engineer that validate anew the special theory of relativity’s limitations on the speed ...

Now, researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the Abdus Salam International ...

Scientists are probing topological insulators with circularly polarized light to reveal their many secrets. These exotic materials have potential for quantum computing and other technologies. They ...

The United Nations have proclaimed the year 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies. In this web collection, the Nature journals jointly celebrate this occasion by ...

“Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space,” the Hirshhorn Museum’s new exhibition of five groundbreaking Latin American artists, starts in a deceptively understated manner. Walking into ...

Australian National University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. James Turrell is a veteran Californian artist who throughout a career spanning almost half a century has employed ...

Much of what we know about plant circadian rhythms is the result of laboratory experiments where inputs such as light and temperature can be tightly controlled. Less is known about how these ...

Sleep is regulated by two mechanisms: the homeostatic process and the circadian clock. Light affects sleep and alertness by entraining the circadian clock, and acutely inducing sleep/alertness, in a ...

Nearly a half century after Star Trek made its American television debut, "Captain, we’re being hailed on a subspace frequency" and the faster-than-light (FTL) communications technology this Trekkie ...