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 ...

Engineering physics is a combination of electrical engineering and physics, which means you'll typically start by taking courses and labs such as calculus, chemistry and physics, as well as some ...

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

In various space tasks such as space rendezvous-docking and on-orbit maintenance, the measurement of the relative posture and position of non-cooperative spacecraft is a key component. However, the ...

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

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Arthur Pak (Co-PI) is the Lead for Strategic Development for the Inertial ...

Stanford scientists found that strontium titanate improves its performance when frozen to near absolute zero, showing ...

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 ...

Large-scale satellite constellations, such as Starlink and Kuiper, exchange information at incredible speed through new laser-interlink technologies, but each satellite is an island in terms of power ...

Researchers built a silver-grooved chip that channels laser energy into nanometer-spaced peaks, beating the diffraction limit and aiding light-matter studies.