Military planners spent years treating high-energy lasers as a science project. In 2025, that changed, as directed-energy ...

German project aims to turn fusion lasers into industrial systems capable of 15 shots per second for 24/7 power plants.

A newly funded research project combines the theoretical expertise of University of Rochester scientists with the theoretical and experimental capabilities of ELI Beamlines in the Czech Republic.

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has been selected to contribute to a new collaborative project focused on advancing ...

A microscopic 'Christmas tree' is a seasonal look at a remarkable science project that found eerie comparisons between the ...

For experiments that require ultra-precise measurements and control over atoms -- think two-photon atomic clocks, cold-atom interferometer sensors and quantum gates -- lasers are the technology of ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT) are joining ...

Cutting grass with lasers works great in a test setup. (Credit: Allen Pan, YouTube) Wouldn’t it be cool if you could cut the grass with lasers? Everyone knows that lasers are basically magic, and if ...

There are many different types of lasers—almost as many as there are applications for the same—but what ties them all together as a class is that they depend on the same physical effect: stimulated ...

The bicycle, or individual elements of it, have been seen as objects of beauty by artists including Picasso, Duchamps, Mucha and even Canada’s own Greg Curnoe. That a machine that appears to be so ...