After heating an optical fiber for nearly an hour, researchers completely changed its dispersion within a small section and ended up with a supercontinuum that covers a wide range...

Complete internal thermal state and full-aperture wavefront errors of a large optic can be accurately reconstructed using front-surface thermal imaging.

Codesign of material properties and electromagnetic responses opens the door to higher-efficiency nanophotonic devices within smaller footprints.

The disclosure is the latest in a string of incidents in which the AI platform has been caught going rogue. OpenAI says it is reviewing the findings.

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

New camera-free frames might avoid the ‘pervert glasses’ nickname, The Information reports.

During periods of seasonal bird migration, "live" migration maps show where nocturnal bird migration is occurring in near real-time, as detected by the U.S. weather surveillance radar network between ...

Anthropic believes the blocked research into biological weapons was suspicious because it was intended to be carried out at a military research institute.

Every year, the prizes recognize the weirdest research that often raises some very serious scientific questions.

In 2022 researchers detected a very odd photon from an enormous gamma-ray burst that should have been destroyed on its way to Earth

Highlights from AIP's 2026 Cross-Society Survey

The Justice Department said it had seized domains used by two hacking platforms.

Nature - Scientists and publishers are testing a new breed of software that promises impressive accuracy at spotting AI-written text.

The federal government recruits top experts to volunteer to advise on pressing research issues of the day. Since President Trump took office, hundreds of these experts have been dismissed.

When researchers in Germany froze liquid-core optical fibers to see what would happen, they discovered a larger-than-expected in-fiber Brillouin gain.

In an advance for photonics and ultrafast science, researchers generate 18-attosecond isolated light pulses via a high-power Yb-laser platform.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

Average global sea surface temperatures have reached a new high, rising to nearly 70 degrees Fahrenheit late last week — potentially for the first time in millennia.