A new optical device allows researchers to generate and switch between two stable, donut-shaped light patterns called skyrmions. These light vortices hold their shape even when disturbed, making them ...

Adjusting the size and chemistry of nanocrystals within an ultrathin surface can speed up light-driven chemical reactions, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In August 2025, I wrote about Finchetto, a UK photonics startup working on an optical packet ...

A research team has successfully implemented a programmable spinor lattice on a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). This platform enables the realization of non-Abelian physics, in which the outcome of ...

All the info you need right here In this occasion I'll make a lighting system to be controlled remotely from my rc using Arduino compatible boards, they will take the input from a receiver and respond ...

In terms of physical controls, Google is mandating a power switch/button, touchpad (2), and camera button (3) on all Android XR glasses. Models with screens will also have a display button (1) that ...

In this project I did a Christmas jumper with rgb LEDs, this can also be a creative clothing project or whatever you want, it uses rgb LEDs that are controlled by an Arduino-based microcontroller that ...

These days, multi-spot ceilings, downlights and LED panels are now the default, often installed with little thought beyond achieving maximum illumination. But lighting is so much more than that: many ...

The method involves stitching together many thin “slices” of light reflecting off an object.

After an X-class solar flare erupted on Feb. 1, a coronal mass ejection reached Earth sooner than expected, prompting upgraded aurora forecasts for Wednesday night Elizabeth Ruggiero/Getty A powerful ...

LED lights are famous for their efficiency and long lives, but how does that turn into cash? We did the math and found out. Tyler Lacoma Editor / Home Security and Smart Home Tyler has worked on, ...

Chris Wedel is a fan of all things tech and gadgets. Living in rural Kansas with his wife and two young boys makes finding ways to stay online tricky — not to mention making my homestead smarter.