The rich history of research involving photons is celebrated in a supplement ... preceded by others on such topics as spin, light microscopy, DNA technologies and cancer. Following the advice ...

Radiation within the visible spectrum can appear black if it is low in power – more specifically, lower in power than its ...

The white light of the sun is made up of all the colours of the rainbow. And when it reaches the Earth, those individual colours are revealed. Photons from the sun rain down and enter water droplets.

Just as a ray of light is made up of many particles called photons, sound consists of particle-like chunks called phonons.

Scientists have made a surprising discovery: they have managed to manipulate light particles in such a way that they can ...

University of Waterloo researchers are creating cameras that detect single photons, with applications in astronomy and ...

The QLASS project, coordinated by Politecnico di Milano, aims to develop a quantum photonic computer, a computer that utilises the quantum properties of photons, the elementary particles that make up ...