Engines of light: New study suggests we could increase useful energy obtained from sunlight

Physicists from Trinity College Dublin believe new insights into the behavior of light may offer a new means of solving one ...
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Princeton physics experiment aims to shed light on disruptive solar flares

Dignitaries formally inaugurate the beginning of FLARE operations. From left: Vyacheslav (Slava) Lukin; Hantao Ji, PPPL physicist and FLARE’s principal investigator; Brandon Thorne, director of ...
Live Science

Does light lose energy as it crosses the universe? The answer involves time dilation.

The speed of light is the fastest anything can travel. What happens to a photon from a galaxy 25 million light years away on its journey toward Earth? When you purchase through links on our site, we ...
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Study claims we emit visible light that vanishes when we die

Human bodies are not quite as dark as they look. A growing body of research suggests that living tissue constantly releases ...
New Scientist

What happens to light's energy when it redshifts? It's complicated

Most of us can relate to being worried about inflation: we are all concerned about the cost of living and what our political leaders are doing to address it. Sometimes, I have to remind myself that we ...