Networks of protein fibers play important roles in living cells. To understand the dynamical behavior of these networks, ...

Chinese physicists used quantum fluctuations to amplify laser effects while reducing the risk of material damage.

Nonlinear interactions between light and matter are at the heart of some of the most powerful tools in modern optics, but pushing these processes to their limits has long been hampered by a ...

Somewhere around 200 million people worldwide live with age-related macular degeneration, and for those with the dry form of ...

A Swedish-German-Luxembourg-Chinese collaboration demonstrated the existence of these magnetic hopfions using femtosecond ...

Today, there are over 10,200 Starlink satellites in the sky. Within a few years from now, the European Space Agency predicts that there will be about 100,000 operational satellites overall. This ...

Laser Genesis targets wrinkles, redness, and pores with zero downtime. Here’s what happened after four sessions.

Red-light therapy promises to treat everything from acne and hair loss to depression and chronic pain. Many of these claims ...

Astronomers have discovered the brightest and most distant "megamaser" to date. The cosmic energy beam is shooting toward Earth from 8 billion light-years away and was spotted thanks to a weird ...

The headlines lately have verged on science fiction. A few weeks ago, my colleague Simon Shuster reported that the Ukrainian military had unveiled a new anti-drone laser weapon called the Sunray. On ...

Jessica Booth is a New York-based freelance writer who regularly writes about health, wellness, parenting, food, travel, beauty and more for a variety of publications. She currently writes for Forbes ...