For the first time, physicists have observed that 'holes' in light can move faster than the light itself. They're known as phase singularities or optical vortices, and since the 1970s, scientists have ...

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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 ...

Your high school physics teacher wasn’t lying—nothing with mass can outrun light. But scientists at Technion just proved that “darkness” itself doesn’t follow those rules. They’ve confirmed that ...