Dubai-based sales company Cercamon has acquired worldwide rights to “Light Pillar,” the feature debut from Chinese writer-director Xu Zao, ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Berlin Film ...

The Berlin Film Festival has added Xu Zao‘s animated film “Han ye deng zhu” (“Light Pillar”) to its Perspectives section for first-time features. The Chinese production is set in the future, where ...

Xu Zao’s sci-fi feature is set in the distant future in a nearly deserted film studio. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief The film, which mixes live action and animated sequences, is set in a ...

Light does a lot of work in the modern world, enabling all types of information technology, from TVs to satellites to fiber-optic cables that carry the internet across oceans. Stanford physicists ...

During the early hours of January 25th, a rare phenomenon was captured by one of our viewers. She sent in a photo showing pillars of light over her Alleghany County.WHAT IS IT?The light pillars are ...

A rare optical phenomenon was spotted above Arkansas Sunday morning, January 25, before sunrise. Michelle Ingram in Pottsville, Arkansas, in Pope County, spotted what appears to be a Northern Lights ...

This job puts me in contact with a lot of tech I’d probably never ordinarily come across. Most of it adds nothing to my life, but looks cool sitting on my desk or around the house. For example, I have ...

Researchers at Tsinghua University developed the Optical Feature Extraction Engine (OFE2), an optical engine that processes data at 12.5 GHz using light rather than electricity. Its integrated ...

In Australia, we are exposed to some of the harshest and most dangerous levels of ultraviolet radiation (UV) in the world, so many of us know how important high SPF sunscreen is. A new study published ...

Light pillars illuminated the sky on Dec. 8. in Graceville, Minnesota, as the beams created an optical illusion when they reflected off ice crystals that formed in the frigid temperatures. This type ...

Light pillars illuminated the sky on Dec. 8. in Graceville, Minnesota, as the beams created an optical illusion when they reflected off ice crystals that formed in the frigid temperatures. The light ...