[Bithead] wanted to make a prop replica of an Electrostaff from Star Wars, but wasn’t sure how best to create the “crackling arcs of energy” effect at the business ends. After a few false starts, he ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Science; DOI 10.29026/oes.2022.220007 overviews the photonic spin hall effect. When a beam is reflected (or refracted) at optical interface or propagating ...

Tantalizing evidence for a QSL Diana Kirschbaum in Silke Bühler-Paschen's lab at the Vienna University of Technology. The team has used neutron scattering to observe emergent photons in cerium ...

If you are a fan of sci-fi shows you’ll be used to volumetric 3D displays as something that’s going to be really awesome at some distant point in the future. It’s been about forty years since a ...