Researchers at TU Delft and Brown University have developed scalable nanotechnology-based lightsails that could support ...

Imagine being able to flip a material from transparent to opaque, or reshape its properties in less than a billionth of a ...

Physicists at the University of Ottawa add an orbital spin to their laser beams to control the movement of electrons in their ...

Cutting-edge technology meets the Kansas cow farm in a collaboration between physicists and agriculture scientists.

An Aston University researcher has conducted the first experimental demonstration of intricate and previously theorized ...

A research team led by Colorado State University has achieved a new milestone in 3D X-ray imaging technology. The scientists ...

In a record-breaking test, researchers remotely detected radioactive material by shooting it with infrared laser pulses and analysing how the light scattered ...

Arthur Ashkin has won half the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, while Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland ... a technique to stretch and amplify beams of light, leading to boosts in laser power. The ...

Ph.D., P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Solid State and Laser Physics I am a USSR-born naturalized American scholar serving as University Professor of Physics and director of ...

Millot and colleagues squeezed a mixture of hydrogen and helium between two diamonds and hit the concoction with a powerful laser to compress it even further. As the pressure and temperature ...

Merging some esoteric physics principles with an advanced instrument creates a magnetic microscope with resolution better ...

In a discovery that challenges conventional optics, scientists have managed to make a laser beam cast its own shadow—a feat previously thought impossible, as light typically passes through other ...