You are watching a long-standing assumption in physics and engineering quietly fall apart. Researchers at Northwestern ...

The Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith for their work in fiber-optics and semiconductors. The Nobel committee Tuesday said the three ...

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics will be shared by three scientists who created revolutionary technologies decades ago that have changed our world today. Half of the $1.4 million prize will go to a ...

Sometimes, you discover than despite what you think is your supposedly broad knowledge of technology and applications, you have a “blind spot.” In other words, you are barely aware of something that’s ...

Researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) in Jena, Germany, together with international collaborators, have developed two complementary methods that could make quantum ...