The Wordle word of the day on December 25 was prism, a word that feels almost unfairly elegant for something so relentlessly honest. A prism exists to intervene between appearance and understanding, ...

Why does light choose the path it does when crossing between media? 🌈 This video presents a clear max–min derivation of Snell’s Law from Fermat’s Principle, showing how extremizing travel time leads ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still daring to test it. Some theories of quantum gravity suggest light might ...

Physics Wallah, Hubballi, will hold various competitions for students in Hubballi on Sunday. Addressing a press conference in Hubballi on Friday, lecturer Ravi Chavan said that the event titled Aagaz ...

The speed of light is one of the most fundamental constants in physics, yet it has never been directly measured in one direction. Instead, scientists rely on assumptions built into how time and ...

Researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported the first ...

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month brings us a scene from the distant universe. Pictured here ...

It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.

A company called Reflect Orbital wants to illuminate the Earth after sunset with orbital sky mirrors, raising alarm bells.

Classical and quantum mechanics don’t really get along as the science of the subatomic can get, well, weird. Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be ...

By shining a focused laser beam onto a sample of material, a team at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and ETH Zürich showed ...