Finally sworn off the "Big Light" but find yourself flummoxed in the hardware store? It’s not just you—lighting is (a little) more complicated these days. At some point in recent memory, I realized ...

After the show was over, again there was no vestibule to ease ourselves out of darkness and into the light of day. The sun ...

Neutral atoms were formed just a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang. The very first stars began ionizing those atoms once again, but it took hundreds of millions of years of forming stars ...

Bernard Coetzee is funded by the Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Research Grant. It is a US$150 000 grant awarded annually to address pressing environmental issues in Africa. The world has not yet won the ...

MoS2 thin films of superposed alternating layers of molybdenum and sulfur atoms form a two-dimensional semiconducting surface. However, even a surprisingly low-intensity blue light pulse is enough to ...