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Double-Slit Experiment Challenges Einstein, Communication with Light, and a Baffling Paradox

Micah Hanks·January 6, 2026

This week in news from The Debrief, new research resolving a century-old debate surrounding the double-slit experiment, communication with light, and more are featured.

This YouTube Creator Built a Camera That Shows You Don’t Need a Major Lab to Film Light in Motion

Marie Nicola·December 27, 2025

A YouTube creator working out of his garage has engineered something that is normally found only in major research facilities: a camera capable of filming a laser beam moving at the speed of light.

Creating Matter with Light: Breakthrough Method Creates Electrodes Using Visible Light

Christopher Plain·December 19, 2025

Scientists have announced a breakthrough method for manufacturing electrodes from conductive plastics using nothing but visible light.

Scientists Revisiting the ‘Faraday Effect’ Have Uncovered a Surprising Magnetic Interaction Between Light and Matter

Ryan Whalen·November 25, 2025

New research reveals light's magnetic field directly influences matter, causing scientists to rethink the 'Faraday Effect.'

A New Object Lurking Near the Sun, Altering Matter with Light, and a Levitation Breakthrough

Micah Hanks·October 28, 2025

This week in stories from The Debrief, a team of physicists is using light to alter the magnetic nature of matter at room temperature, along with other innovations in science and technology.

“Sound Transmission Isn’t Necessary”: Visual Microphone Decodes Vibrations to Hear Without Listening

Christopher Plain·August 1, 2025

Scientists have invented the first-ever single-pixel "visual microphone" that detects vibrations with light and converts them back to sound.

Scientists Defy Conventional Physics By Revealing That a Laser Beam Can Cast a Shadow

Tim McMillan·November 15, 2024

Researchers create a visible shadow using only a laser beam, an achievement that seemingly defies conventional physics.

Physicists Achieve the Impossible by Controlling the ‘Chaotic Behavior’ of Light

Christopher Plain·November 8, 2023

Physicists say they have accomplished the seemingly impossible by successfully controlling the chaotic behavior of light.

Pseudogravity That Bends Light Just Like Real Gravity Created by Engineers in a Laboratory

Christopher Plain·October 17, 2023

A team of researchers working with photonic crystals say they have created pseudogravity in the lab that bends light like real gravity.

Research from the University of Waterloo looks at the Unruh effect, which is in the process of space travel.

This Famous Effect of Space Travel Seen in “Star Wars” Can Now Be Tested in the Lab

Kenna Hughes-Castleberry·June 23, 2022

Researchers at the University of Waterloo are looking at the Unruh effect, an obscurely named sci-fi staple famously depicted in "Star Wars".

Interstellar Kites: Galactic Surfing on Light?

Avi Loeb·May 26, 2022

Here’s hoping that they are some interstellar environmentalists out there who have already started to clean our cosmic neighborhood.

Stellar Engines: As Galaxies Emit Light, Their Expansion Reveals a Unique Phenomenon

Avi Loeb·February 9, 2022

Our observation of the behavior of galaxies reveals phenomena that have received surprisingly little attention in the scientific literature.

Octopus Inspired Adaptive Camouflage Driven by Light

Christopher Plain·November 23, 2021

Researchers have developed an adaptive camouflage inspired by the natural hiding ability of cephalopods, which includes squids and...

Most of The Universe is Invisible: Here’s What You Need to Know about what You Can’t See

Matt Bothwell·November 19, 2021

Most of the universe is invisible, but when we look at it through different 'eyes,' suddenly the dark void of space seems much less empty.

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