In 1951, Columbia’s Charles Townes came up with the idea for the device that led to the laser. It earned him a Nobel Prize.

With the new trilateral master's program “Particle Accelerator Science” the Rhine-Main Universities are pooling their expertise in accelerator science, which is unique in Europe. Starting in the ...

Sydney researchers reduce noise in chip-scale laser paving advances in quantum, navigation and communications.

High-precision laser spectroscopy measurements on the thorium-229 nucleus could reveal new physics, say TU Wien physicists ...

Elon Musk said the Starlink program is delivering “low-cost, reliable internet throughout the world” and expressed hope to expand operations to India. Speaking on the People by WTF podcast, he ...

Elon Musk explains that Starlink's satellite-based internet cannot compete with cell towers in dense cities due to physics.

Perovskites may sound like perogies or piroshkis, but no high-carb-cheese-and-potato-flavor-pocket can do what they do. They’re minerals that can do the same party trick as many of your favorite ...

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.

Researchers at the University of Sydney have cracked a long-standing problem in microchip-scale lasers by carving tiny "speed ...

So far, the team has measured several effects, including wave steepening, shock fronts and solitary wave fission thanks to the chip. While these nonlinear behaviours had been predicted in superfluids, ...

Antimatter particles are mirror versions of matter particles, with the opposite values of properties such as electric charge.

Comet 3I Atlas is currently ~186 million miles from Earth, which is twice the distance from the Earth to the sun. It is ...