Light's behavior seems counterintuitive. That is, until you figure out light is a wave. The way light behaves can seem very counterintuitive, and many physicists would agree with that, but once you ...

The classic signature of wave-particle duality in quantum particles is the wave-like interference pattern that is produced when a beam of particles passes through a ‘double-slit’. Researchers have ...

The interference of sound waves is not just of academic interest. For instance, it is the operating principle of noise-cancelling headphones. These create their own sound vibrations, which are tuned ...

From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). In the 1950s, Philip Anderson, a physicist at Bell Laboratories, discovered a strange phenomenon. In some situations where it seems as though waves ...

Incoming: Schematic drawing of a photon collision at a time interface, which is a metamaterial that can undergo abrupt and large changes in its electromagnetic properties. (Courtesy: Anna Umana, ...

Quantum physics tells us about the properties and behaviors of atomic and subatomic particles. But scientists have long held the belief that the rules that govern the microscopic world should also be ...

The first convincing evidence of small-scale torsional Alfvén waves throughout the corona has been reported by an ...

Astrophysicists have provided the most direct evidence yet that Dark Matter does not constitute ultramassive particles as is commonly thought but instead comprises particles so light that they travel ...