Satellite imagery has revealed that China is building a massive laser-driven nuclear fusion facility in Mianyang, a move that ...

Well, [PWalsh] didn’t want to swap crucial components willy-nilly, going the scientific way instead ... Tweaked, not that. Laser pulsing frequency? No dice. Air assist? Yes!

Scientists have activated the smallest particle accelerator ever built—a tiny device roughly the size of a coin. This ...

NASA's intrepid Curiosity rover on Mars now has the ability to choose an interesting rock target and fire its scientific laser at it autonomously. Yep, that's right. A car-sized rover can select a ...

The highly coherent light produced by the laser is used in a novel photographic process, in which the light-sensitive film, instead of recording an image, in effect records the light waves themselves ...