"The shape changes completely with the environment," he said. "This is really the point of nanophotonics, that by shaping the environment, we can really shape the photon itself." The team's ...

Light is something we interact with every day, but have you ever wondered what the shape of a single particle of light — the photon — actually looks like? For the first time, researchers have defined ...

Calculations intended to feel out the interactions between light and the material that produces it may inadvertently describe the photon's outline, revealing its shape in unprecedented detail. A new ...

The man was looking for caves, but he instead spotted a mysterious shape on the ground. It looked like a long, slender line running mostly east-west. The mark wasn’t perfectly straight—it ...

The shape of an antenna’s front end dictates many of its operating parameters. Once it’s manufactured, those characteristics are locked in. A shape-changing antenna would enable communications across ...

That's like saying the shape of a single electron orbital (e.g. in hydrogen) is the shape of the electron. It's a stance one can take, but it's not how this language is usually applied. We usually ...

Will you continue to chart your way into a gabbier future? Thinking About the Shape of Personality Change According to a new comprehensive paper by Amanda Wright of the University of Zurich and ...

A new theory, that explains how light and matter interact at the quantum level has enabled researchers to define for the first time the precise shape of a single photon. A new theory, that ...