For nearly 50 years, physicists have dreamed of the secrets they could unlock by raising the energy state of an atom's nucleus using a laser. The achievement would allow today's atomic clocks to be ...

It's not at every university that laser pulses powerful enough to burn paper and skin are sent blazing down a hallway. But that's what happened in UMD's Energy Research Facility, an unremarkable ...

NP, artificial muons were used to image a lead object through thick shielding. We look at what was measured, what was ...

New analysis uses neutron-free shots to estimate 100–100,000 neutrons per laser pulse in deuterium cluster fusion ...

Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft has achieved the first successful laser ranging experiment performed during an asteroid flyby, marking a new milestone in deep-space exploration, according to the Japan ...

Magnetic reconnection is a process that occurs when the magnetic fields of a conductive plasma quickly rearrange and release massive amounts of stored magnetic energy. It is widely thought to be the ...

A robot has assembled a working tabletop laser cavity in less than 30 minutes, handling the precise alignment usually done manually. Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) researchers have ...

The team set out to investigate “optical guiding”: a method of directing light through air, which could be used for long-range laser communication. Based on a 2014 study, they knew that this works ...

Researchers set a record by guiding light in 45-meter-long air wave-guides. It's not at every university that laser pulses powerful enough to burn paper and skin are sent blazing down a hallway. But ...

It’s not at every university that laser pulses powerful enough to burn paper and skin are sent blazing down a hallway. But that’s what happened in UMD’s Energy Research Facility, an unremarkable ...