Modern life runs on light. Fiber-optic cables move data across continents, lasers guide surgeries, and photons sit at the ...
Physicists have finally confirmed a phenomenon that sounds like pure science fiction: waves that appear to bounce off a ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Four 1.75-metres high robots trundle around a chemistry laboratory at Liverpool university, conveying materials ...
An octopus's mesmerizing skin can flit from orange to red in the blink of an eye, partly thanks to a natural pigment called xanthommatin. Scientists have long been intrigued by the chemical’s ...