Light has been put to work generating the same force that makes airplanes fly, a study appearing online December 5 in Nature Photonics shows. With the right design, a uniform stream of light has ...

Levitating objects with light. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 03 / 190319092009.htm. California Institute of Technology.

Turns out the key to making things lighter than air is…light! California scientists think they’ve found a way to make objects levitate using concentrated light — a theory that could even ...

Zhu and her colleagues' integrated light system changes objects' colors in less than four minutes on average, which is eight times faster than their prior work, "Photo-Chromeleon."This speed boost ...

3D printing has changed the way people approach hardware design, but most printers share a basic limitation: they essentially build objects layer by layer, generally from the bottom up. This new ...

A device uses quantum effects to create images of objects from light that never actually touched them. By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan. 4 January 2023 Shining laser light through a maze of crystals ...

Mr. Cheng-Hung Chi, PhD student at the University of Southampton, uses superoscillatory light to detect the position of a nano-wire with atomic resolution.

An illustration of gravitational lensing, a phenomenon in which massive cosmic objects bend light from a distant source, creating a distorted image. NASA. 3 ...