Photons

Space Light can travel for billions of years yet experience no time

A photon crossing a billion light-years experiences no time at all. This is not metaphor. It follows directly from the mathematics of special relativity.

Innovations Scientists develop a photonic transistor powered by a single photon Joseph Shavit

Discoveries Fermilab experiment finds no evidence for a fourth neutrino, ending a long-debated theory Joshua Shavit

Innovations Scientists achieve first-ever quantum teleportation between separate semiconductor chips Shy Cohen

Space For the first time ever, researchers made a photon travel back in time Joseph Shavit

Innovations New quantum breakthrough could transform computing and communication

Discoveries Scientists observe negative time for the first time ever

Innovations Scientists use the Lorentz force to stop light in its tracks

Innovations ‘Light hurricanes’ could revolutionize digital data transmission

Space Weird science: Physicists create a one-dimensional gas out of light

Discoveries Researchers discover a previously unknown way in which light interacts with matter

Discoveries Oxford scientists develop the world’s first ultra-fast photonic computer processor