(Nanowerk News) Light can now be used to achieve ever better control of microparticles and nanoparticles. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen are now able to ...

When Galileo's name comes up, most people think about his contributions to observational astronomy. However, he did lots of other stuff including investigating the speed of light. During his time, ...

Is there anything a wheel can’t do? The Fizeau Wheel helped calculate the speed of light itself. Just one year shy of 1850, French physicist Armand Fizeau gave the world The Fizeau Wheel, and with it ...