"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

Flinders University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Neuroscientific knowledge of how the brain processes the separate attributes of visual images has expanded exponentially in ...

We’ve all seen recreations of the famous double-slit experiment, which showed that light can behave both as a wave and as a particle. Or rather, it’s likely that what we’ve seen is the results of the ...

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In 1905, Albert Einstein provided an explanation of the photoelectric effect – that various metals emit electrons when light is shined on them – by suggesting that a beam of light is not simply a wave ...