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Years of Light – Vote for your most beautiful light experiment

Guest post by Liesbeth Venema, Senior Physics Editor, Nature We are basking in light. In our daily lives we encounter a multitude of light-based technologies from basic lighting, optical fibre...

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Theory of light and colours

Guest post by Iulia Georgescu, Senior Editor, Nature Physics The next couple of experiments with light listed in our ‘beautiful experiments’ poll come from, well, the age of enlightenment. First up is...

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Electrifying light

Guest post by Nicky Dean, Team Manager Physics, Nature Communications. For this week’s set of experiments in our poll we will stick to the 19th century. Our first entry is from 1839, when Alexandre...

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Flash forward: new surprises with light

Guest post by Maria Maragkou, Associate Editor at Nature Materials This week’s entries for the poll of the most beautiful experiments with light occurred around the turn of the 19th century. Wilhelm...

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Betwixt and between

Guest post by Leonie Mueck, Associate Editor, Nature In last week’s post you heard about beautiful experiments with light featured in our poll from the turn of the century. This week, we will talk...

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Into the laser era

Guest post by Rachel Won International Editor, Nature Photonics This week’s set of experiments featured in our poll  are all about the advent of the maser (microwave amplification by stimulated...

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From the Big Bang to atomic clocks

Guest post by Amos Martinez, Associate Editor, Nature Communications We kick off this week’s experiments for our poll with the discovery of a special kind of light: cosmic microwave background. The...

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Back to light, back to reality

Guest post by Federico Levi, Associate Editor Nature Communications The experiments in this week ’s blog entry accompanying our poll of ‘ the most beautiful experiment with light’ were carried out in...

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Pushing the limits – Light in the 21st Century

Guest post by Congcong Huang, Associated Editor, Nature Communications and Nicky Dean, Team Manager Physics, Nature Communications. This week we conclude our series of ‘beautiful experiments with...

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How Can Hollywood Help? #sciamlearning

This post originally appeared on Digital Science’s Event Blog: http://www.digital-science.com/blog/events/how-can-hollywood-help-sciamlearning/ By Laura Wheeler   On August 4th, I was honored to be...

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