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

Reaching the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, would take hundreds of thousands of years using current rocket propulsion ...

An international team has demonstrated a new method for producing the most intense light ...

Using even the most advanced rocket propulsion technologies available today, it would take billions of dollars and hundreds ...

A light-sensitive crystal is opening the door to a new era of “light-written” technology. Arsenic trisulfide can be reshaped ...

Scientists may be on the cusp of launching a similar technological revolution — this time using light. In a significant advance toward that goal, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and ...

The findings of a new study are the first direct evidence that plant seeds and seedlings can sense sounds in nature.

A new machine learning tool called PhysMAP separates the electrical signatures of different cell types, offering a new way to study schizophrenia and depression.

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

Ultrafast lasers tracked plasma formation and ionization in copper with picosecond precision. Results show rapid ion growth ...

An international research team of the A1 Collaboration at the Mainz Microtron (MAMI) of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ...

Some quantum cryptographers want to find ways to keep messages secret even if the rules of quantum mechanics don’t hold. The ...