Instead of superconducting circuits cooled to near absolute zero, photonic systems use light particles as qubits.

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve problems once thought unsolvable, from predicting the course of ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

Tiny 3D-printed “light cages” are giving researchers a new way to catch and hold individual particles of light on a chip, a ...

Why not take the same strands of light that already power the world’s fiber-optic cables and let them travel freely through ...

An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily ...

The University of Iowa has been awarded $1.5 million to advance materials science research by leveraging various materials’ ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

Astronomers finally have the answer to a 20 year mystery. In A Nutshell Hubble Space Telescope captured evidence of two ...

When the Burj Khalifa opened on January 4, 2010, it did not just take the title of the world’s tallest building, it announced ...

In the early 1910s, Winston Churchill ordered the conversion of Britain’s giant fleet of dreadnought battleships to oil fuel ...