A single green laser, a glass bead smaller than a bacterium and a lab in Austria are helping you see lightning in a new way.

Scientists in South Korea have achieved a major milestone in physics – and one pursued by researchers in the field for decades – by generating a record-breaking ultra-high intensity laser. The pulse ...

Using a precisely aligned pair of laser beams, scientists can now hold a single aerosol particle in place and monitor how it ...

The understanding of complex many-body dynamics in laser-driven polyatomic molecules is crucial for any attempt to steer ...

Lightning rods have been used to guide lightning strikes for centuries, but now scientists have demonstrated something a bit more advanced than a humble metal stick. Beaming a high-powered laser into ...

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 ...

Colorado State University will soon be home to one of the most powerful laser facilities in the world. Marvel Fusion teamed up with the university to build the groundbreaking $150 million laser ...

The Pentagon’s push to field laser weapons has shifted from laboratory curiosity to operational reality, with recent tests ...

Rochester Institute of Technology is among a group of area higher-education and industry partners sharing a $1 million Regional Innovation Engines Development Award grant from the National Science ...

Scientists have developed a system that can generate random numbers over a hundred times faster than current technologies, paving the way towards faster, cheaper, and more secure data encryption in ...

Aircraft maker Boeing says it has won a contract to bring the Advanced Tactical Laser aircraft, a smaller sibling of the Airborne Laser 747, closer to joining the Air Force arsenal. Jon Skillings is ...