A beam of electrons crossed just a few millimeters of plasma, then helped trigger an effect that usually belongs to massive ...

When lasers were invented in the 1960s, they opened new avenues for scientific discovery and everyday applications, from ...

Scientists have taken lasers beyond light and into the realm of sound, creating a breakthrough “phonon laser” that ...

Scientists in the Riccio College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of California ...

Physics Laser cooling breakthrough could make data centers much greener By Abhimanyu Ghoshal April 13, 2025 A Sandia materials scientist gazes into a viewport of a molecular beam epitaxy reactor, ...

Strong field laser physics investigates the interaction between intense laser pulses and matter, a domain where non-linear phenomena such as multiphoton absorption, tunnelling ionisation, and ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking technique called RAVEN that can capture the full complexity of an ultra-intense laser pulse in a single shot—something previously thought nearly impossible.

Light usually travels in straight lines, but what if it could twist, spiral, and ...

Lunar laser ranging (LLR) remains one of the most incisive techniques for probing both the intricacies of the Earth–Moon system and the fundamental aspects of gravitational physics. By timing laser ...

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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American It wasn’t so long ago that I was in graduate ...