MeerKAT telescope discovers most powerful space laser ever found, detecting a hydroxyl gigamaser 8 billion light-years away using gravitational lensing.

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. Scientists have found a way to watch an object build electric charge in ...

Inside most photonic chips, light races through tiny optical wires. It carries information far faster than electricity can in many conventional systems.

A new laser concept could revolutionize how we explore the frozen worlds of our solar system. When scientists dream of exploring the hidden oceans beneath the icy crusts of moons like Jupiter's Europa ...

An ultrastable laser could enable extremely precise timing and navigation on the moon, and the cold, dark craters near the lunar poles would be the ideal location for it ...

Scientists have found a promising new way to manufacture one of industry’s toughest materials—tungsten carbide–cobalt—using advanced 3D printing. Normally, producing this ultra-hard material requires ...

Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have demonstrated a new kind of vacuum ultraviolet laser that is 100 to 1,000 times more efficient than existing technologies of its kind. The ...

Monitoring glaciers and ice sheets is complicated work. They move and change shape. They melt. A scientist at the Rochester Institute of Technology is giving NASA better tools for assessing changes in ...

James Clerk Maxwell might turn in his grave if he heard about some of the extremely cool things humans have done with his intellectual work. Looking at this paper ...

A laser-based ice drill can bore deep, narrow channels into ice while keeping both mass and energy requirements lower than traditional tools. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...