Light has always been described as an elegant partnership of electric and magnetic fields, yet for nearly two centuries physicists treated the magnetic side as a quiet background player. New ...

Whenever light interacts with matter, light appears to slow down. This is not a new observation and standard wave mechanics can describe most of these daily phenomena. For example, when light is ...

Researchers from the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester and the University of Oviedo have discovered a hitherto unknown light behavior in gypsum, a material more commonly used ...