Did you ever dream of having a lava lamp experiment when you were a kid? I know I did! There’s just something magical about those colorful blobs bouncing around in liquid light. Now, as a parent, you ...

The famous double-slit experiment, which demonstrated that light is both a wave and a particle, has been performed using “slits in time”. The techniques involved present a new way to manipulate light ...

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