From gas lamps to LEDs and medical lasers, a panel of artists, scientists and theorists asks what role light plays in...
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Artist Susan Schuppli leads a walk in Tate Modern’s surrounding area reflecting on the materiality of sunsets and the politics...
Human history has been a quest to light the dark, but today most of humanity spends more time bathed in...
What does society keep in the dark, and how can it be illuminated? Labern&Lloyd of the Drawing Shed, working here...
How does light transform through photography? Mobile photography has become a global medium and an established form of visual communication....
Join Royal Society University Research Fellow Lucie Green to walk and talk about the activity and atmosphere of our nearest...
How does light help us understand space and time? How does it shape our material world and how do we...
Researchers at Stanford University have successfully designed and fabricated an extremely small wavelength demultiplexer using a method which they said...
Enter into the Bacteria Light Lab. Bask in the light of bioluminescent bacteria, learn about the quantum effects of light...
Mushrooms in the Brazilian forest have developed a clever way to ensure their reproductive survival. According to new research, they...
Imperial Fringe event 'Lit Up' celebrated the International Year of Light through a range of events last Thursday. I dropped...
Isn’t light amazing? Without light you couldn’t use binoculars to see an enemy helicopter approach. Without light you couldn’t train...
Join Imperial researchers and student societies as they bring the science of light out of the shadows for an evening...
Photo credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration In the International Year of Light, join astrophysicist Roberto Trotta to discover what the...
As part of the International Year of Light, an image showing insect trails around a floodlight. Image: EPOD, Bug trails,...
"you are probably less safe driving between 4am and 6am than when you are legally drunk" The Latin words circa...
Themes of the last fortnight have been the GM crops inquiry, the circadian eye and doubts about the stem cell...
Miikke Tetho sits in a darkened room with a camera observing his every move. The table in front of him...
Framed against the Dubai skyline, it’s the physical processes of refraction, reflection and constructive interference that create the explosion of...
When Walt Disney purchased the Star Wars franchise in late 2012, I saw it as the perfect excuse to whittle...
Scientists at the University of St Andrews have developed a tractor beam, a device which uses light to attract microscopic...
At just under 300 million meters per second, the speed of light in a vacuum is one of the most...
The idea of invisibility cloaking - being able to hide things from view - has been a point of interest...
With the New Year comes the inevitable question of resolutions - how will you better yourself in 2012? The familiar...
Harald Haas and his team from the University of Edinburgh have invented what he calls "speaking light". In a TED...
The most recent financial crisis caused by the housing bubble, which popped as subprime mortgages in the US and many...
It’s 3am. The cold light of my computer screen illuminates my face, highlighting the bags that are forming under my...
Although I am a massive fan of all this warm weather and cloudless sky, the inevitable rise in the pollen...
Will the sky above Boston give a little whistle? Take yourself into the middle of nowhere and hold a radio...
5. The ultrasound gun The sonic devastator Imagine the sound of fingernails scraping down a blackboard, then amplify it to...
