Artificial intelligence grows more demanding every year. Modern models learn and operate by pushing huge volumes of data through repeated matrix operations that sit at the heart of every neural ...

Here, a calcite crystal is struck with a laser operating at 445 nanometers, fluorescing and displaying properties of birefringence. Unlike the standard picture of light breaking into individual ...

Menlo's optical frequency combs are a core component of optical clocks, such as this one at JILA. (Courtesy: GE Marti/JILA) This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first time an optical-frequency ...

Light is the fastest-moving thing in the universe. So what would happen if the speed of light were much, much slower? In a vacuum, the speed of light is about 186,000 miles per second (300,000 ...

Researchers at the University of Sydney have cracked a long-standing problem in microchip-scale lasers by carving tiny "speed ...

With global networks carrying complex time-sensitive data, the speed of light is actually becoming a significant source of latency, researchers have found. While today’s fiber optics-based networks ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. What gives? Is it really possible for gamma-rays to exceed the speed of ...

Light is the fastest-moving thing in the universe. So what would happen if the speed of light were much, much slower? In a vacuum, the speed of light is about 186,000 miles per second (300,000 ...