A tiny silica bead, just 100 nanometers across, sits suspended in a vacuum and vibrates under the grip of laser light. Those ...

Alpha Centauri sits more than four light-years away, close enough to fascinate generations of dreamers and far enough to make ...

An international team of physicists has achieved a significant advance in laser science, demonstrating for the first time a ...

By harnessing the unique properties of tantala (tantalum pentoxide), a team of US-based researchers has created a photonic integrated circuit that can be tuned to deliver laser light across a broad ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford, UK, have made a significant advance in laser science, demonstrating for the first ...

Researchers in the US and Germany have unveiled a theoretical blueprint for an atomic clock driven by a highly synchronized ...

PowerLight's wireless system could keep military drones flying indefinitely, or be adapted as a directed-energy system for ...

Researchers have found that under certain conditions, a laser beam can act like an opaque object and cast a shadow, opening new possibilities for technologies that could use a laser beam to control ...

Light can be a powerful tool in skin care, whether it’s an LED facial or a laser treatment for acne. Light therapy can also seem a little mysterious if you’ve never done it before, because light doesn ...

New ‘gravity mapping’ hardware could lead to new submarine navigation, ground-penetrating geological sensors, and aerial ...