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A material that emits less energy than it absorbs has the potential to save some of the sunlight wasted by solar collectors.

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For the first time, researchers have seen how light behaves during a mysterious phenomenon called 'imaginary time'.

Physicists tested the Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) paradox, which is at the heart of quantum theory, to measure light ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

Light, long considered intangible and elusive, has just crossed a new scientific frontier. This impalpable matter could well transform, like water. A feat: light becomes "supersolid." Italian ...

This “scattering” of virtual photons can then give rise to a real beam of light– literally from the altered vacuum. To prove this theoretical prediction, the research team utilized the ...