PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — Almost three weeks after Election Day, it’s official: Ballot Measure 34-255 has passed, and the Tigard City Council is free to put its official support behind ...

Light does more than illuminate the world—it can also push and twist matter. It was back in the 1870s that James Clerk ...

Various optical systems or geometries can be used to perform light measurements. For instance, the total power [flux] of a light source can be measured in all directions, in a specific direction or ...

Human vision relies on light. After reflecting off surfaces, light enters into the eyes and travels through the cornea and pupil to produce an image on the retina. The eye is sensitive to a broad ...

University of Illinois Physics Professor Paul Kwiat and members of his research group have developed a new tool for precision measurement at the nanometer scale in scenarios where background noise and ...

PHOENIX — A voter initiative that seeks to halt any additional expansion of the Phoenix light rail system will remain on next month's special election ballot under a decision Wednesday by the Arizona ...

In the summer of 1926, an experimental beam of light pierced the night sky between two precisely measured peaks in the San Gabriel Mountains, and science history was made. Virtually unseen by the ...