In an interview with IGN conducted ahead of today’s big reveal, Valve hardware and software engineer Jeremy Selan and hardware engineer Gabe Rowe explain why the company is releasing a new VR headset ...

It’s the grand narrative of how optics transformed human vision and understanding of the universe, showing how a simple desire to read better by candlelight eventually led to humanity peering into the ...

Scientists at Japan's Institute for Molecular Science have achieved a 1,000-fold enhancement in white-light generation inside ...

TL;DR: This experiment may not revolutionize telecommunications, but it highlights how accessible these concepts have become outside traditional research labs. Using nothing more than an iPad, a solar ...

In this video I see how fast we can get a radiometer to spin by shining the world's brightest flashlight on it. Then I talk ...

Scientists at Japan's Institute for Molecular Science have achieved a 1,000-fold enhancement in white-light generation inside water by using non-harmonic two-color femtosecond laser excitation. This ...

Physical networks, composed of nodes and links that occupy a spatial volume, are hard to study with conventional techniques. A meta-graph approach that elucidates the impact of physicality on network ...

Chief meteorologist Mark Dixon takes a look at a little experiment with convection in Sept. 28's Science Sunday.