Thin films might not come up in conversation every day, but they are all around us. Take the metallic plastic films of chip ...

During a parabolic flight over Europe, a small slab of graphene aerogel floated in near-weightlessness while a laboratory ...

A laser hit the tiny black cube, and it lurched forward almost at once. That split-second jump, caught during a zero-gravity ...

The emergence of ultrafast laser pulse generation, marking a significant milestone in laser science, has triggered incredible progress across a wide array of disciplines, encompassing industrial ...

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a laser-plasma accelerator can reliably drive a free-electron laser ...

Scientists have taken lasers beyond light and into the realm of sound, creating a breakthrough “phonon laser” that ...

Astronomers detect the most powerful space laser from colliding galaxies 8 billion light-years away, offering rare insights ...

Laser-induced alignment boosts single-particle imaging by improving molecular orientation, enabling clearer 3D structure recovery of proteins and macromolecules. (Nanowerk News) Single-particle ...

One of the most remarkable discoveries made by astronomers in recent years is the identification of an extremely strong ...

The big picture: With its first 2-petawatt experiment successfully completed, ZEUS is poised to push the boundaries of high-field science, providing researchers with a powerful new tool for discovery ...

Plasma mirrors capable of withstanding the intensity of powerful lasers are being designed through an emerging machine learning framework. Researchers in Physics and Computer Science at the University ...

Researchers use laser treatments to transform ordinary cork into a powerful tool for treating oil spills. They tested variations of a fast-pulsing laser treatment, closely examining the nanoscopic ...