Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a discovery that challenges conventional optics, scientists have managed to make a laser beam cast its own shadow—a feat ...

In the HiPEQ project, a consortium of industry and research partners has developed new laser-based approaches to enable ...

Dozens of times over the last decade NASA scientists have launched laser beams at a reflector the size of a paperback novel about 240,000 miles (385,000 kilometers) away from Earth. They announced ...

Jian Wu and team unveil a quantum light method using Bright Squeezed Vacuum to boost nonlinear laser effects 20 fold without ...

Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light signals ...

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Swiss physicists have achieved a groundbreaking breakthrough in lightning control using laser beams, which could lead to advanced lightning protection systems for critical infrastructure such as ...