For nearly two centuries, physics textbooks have treated light as magnetically indifferent to the materials it passes through, a pure messenger of energy and information that leaves magnetic order ...
for Medical, First Year University Science Students and General Use in Schools. By G. Stead. Fifth edition. Pp. xv+559. (London: J. and A. Churchill, Ltd., 1936.) 12s ...
Light can do more than illuminate a material. In some cases, it can temporarily change how electrons move through it. That ...
Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland share the 2018 physics Nobel for their work with lasers that have led to numerous practical applications, such as eye surgery. “The main practical ...