Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s ...

Researchers find gravitational lensing has significant effect on cosmic birefringence. ScienceDaily. Retrieved March 19, 2026 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 11 / 231102135148.htm Kavli ...

Over the past decades, researchers have demonstrated conventional solitons, stretched pulses, self-similar pulses, and dissipative solitons by managing the dispersion and nonlinearity of fiber lasers.

A team of researchers studying the uncertainties associated with a phenomenon known as cosmic birefringence has developed a method to reduce uncertainties in its observational measurements, according ...

IN the measurement of stresses in glass using polarized light, it is usual to employ some form of compensator in which the amount of birefringence varies uniformly across the field of view and passes ...

An obscure optical effect that had faded from view for more than a century suddenly has become a hot topic for microelectronics producers. New studies show that this effect, called intrinsic ...

According to quantum electrodynamics (QED) - a quantum theory that describes how light and matter interact - it’s predicted that space is actually full of 'virtual particles' that pop in and out of ...

This news release is available in German. Nothing could be simpler: a drop of blood is placed on a special carrier substance; after a wait of a few minutes, the slide is placed on a device that emits ...

A weird quantum effect may have just been observed for the first time in the polarised light of empty space around neutron star. The effect, known as vacuum birefringence, was first predicted by ...