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 ...

A chip-sized structure made of silicon nanopillars floated off a surface inside a Cornell University lab, pushed upward by ...

Dozens of times over the last decade NASA scientists have launched laser beams at a reflector the size of a paperback novel about 240,000 miles (385,000 kilometers) away from Earth. They announced ...

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

MIT researchers discovered a paradoxical phenomenon in optical physics that could enable a new bioimaging method that's ...

Scientists have found a competitor to the lightning rod — one of the most tried and true methods of controlling where lightning strikes. The new method is far more expensive, but it allowed scientists ...

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Discover how a self-organizing “pencil beam” laser could allow for faster and more precise biomedical imaging.

The researchers want to better understand the fundamental physics of the pencil beam and the mechanisms behind its self ...