A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

A team of physicists from the University of Innsbruck and Harvard University has proposed a fundamentally new way to generate ...

Researchers at Columbia have created a chip that turns a single laser into a “frequency comb,” producing dozens of powerful light channels at once. Using a special locking mechanism to clean messy ...

A new study from SFU's School of Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEE) proposes an innovative standardization framework to ...

Without a view of the stars at night, Don McLean would never have been able to write Vincent and Vincent van Gogh would not have painted Starry Night. Viewing a sky full of stars is part of what makes ...

How dark is the night sky where you live? If you’re in an urban area, the answer will likely be “not dark at all”. The pervasiveness of artificial light – be it in the form of streetlamps, billboards, ...

Too much sun can ruin photosynthesis, scorching plants and other organisms that depend on capturing sunlight for energy.