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Experiments on the International Space Station suggest spiders can weave normal-looking webs in space—they just need…

Scientists in the UK think they may have found a cheap, low-tech way to help fight age-related loss of vision. In a…

Black holes aren’t supposed to leak any light when they smash into each other—or at least that’s what physicists…

People who only occasionally fall down an internet rabbit hole on their smartphones late at night might be able to…

What makes something red, or blue, or green? It’s all in the way light bounces off its surface. Something that…

On Monday, a team of scientists in Australia announced an exciting breakthrough: For the first time, researchers…

It turns out the recognizable half-circle arch of a rainbow is a complete lie. When you’re standing on the ground…

German scientists have constructed a powerful new light system that can focus energy equivalent to the radiation of…

When it comes to cooling things in the lab, scientists have long found an experimental lower limit just above the…

It’s obvious to anyone with eyeballs that there ain’t no damn stars in the city, while there are about a gazillion…

I don’t know what 1,000 suns actually looks like in real life, but I would imagine it’s probably something like…

I don’t know how these tiny dancers got trapped inside this spinning zoetrope but it’s the only explanation I can…

These beetles may look like two different species, but they’re the same individual. The difference lies in how they…

Every year, the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, Australia, hosts an event called Vivid Sydney: A festival of light,…

Not all light is made equal. Now, a team of physicists has discovered that photons can travel differently to any…

There’s no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow but there are some colorful visuals you can trip out on if you can…

A team of researchers has managed to boost the amount of light an LED emits by 60 percent simply by shaping its…

They don’t look much, but these little black balls harness the power of bright light to zip across the surface of…

Rain means clouds and clouds mean less sunlight. That’s bad news for most solar cells, but a new design can actually…