In 1927, the term "picture element," later abbreviated to "pixel," appeared for the first time in the American technology magazine Wireless World. Today, pixels are everywhere: in computer screens and ...

Information processing in today’s computers is done almost exclusively by charges (electric currents). Photons, albeit they are ideal for information transmission, never became a mainstream technology ...

In the famous double-slit experiment, an interference pattern consisting of dark and bright bands emerges when a beam of light hits two narrow slits. The same effect has also been seen with particles ...

A dark point inside a beam of light should not be much of a traveler. Yet in a new experiment, some of those points appeared ...