California’s fusion sector is moving from lab curiosity to industrial ambition, and one startup now claims its reactors could ...

Over the past several decades, researchers have been making rapid progress in harnessing light to enable all sorts of ...

China’s rumored laser rifle has become a Rorschach test for modern military reporting, a story that reveals more about how ...

For decades, scientists have sought ways to compress the tools of optical science – lasers, lenses, mirrors – onto chips that fit on a fingertip. Such ...

The ability to precisely study and manipulate electrons in electron microscopes could open new possibilities for the ...

Operating a new device named the Fusion Z-pinch Experiment 3, or FuZE-3, Zap Energy has now achieved plasmas with electron ...

The research team has observed Floquet effects in graphene, paving the way for innovative new technologies. Graphene is a remarkable "miracle" material, consisting of a single, atom-thin layer of ...

Xlaserlab is one of the fastest growing innovators in the world in the sphere of precision laser technology is getting bigger ...

A particle accelerator that produces intense X-rays could be squeezed into a device that fits on a table, my colleagues and I ...

Engineers created a laser-cut Mylar disc that drops with surprising precision, promising safer, cheaper parachute system for ...

Now, researchers at the U.S. Joint Quantum Initiative (JQI) have designed and tested new chips that can convert one wavelength of light into a trio of hues. Remarkably, says JQI, the chips all work ...

Scientists have discovered that light’s long-ignored magnetic field may directly drive the Faraday effect.