An international team of physicists has achieved a significant advance in laser science, demonstrating for the first time a ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford, Queen’s University Belfast, and global partners used the Gemini laser to "compress ...

A study reconstructs the chemical composition of key molecules in stars by analyzing their infrared fingerprints.

Two billion years after the cosmos banged into existence, a mysterious force known as dark energy began shoving space outward ...

MIT scientists showed that certain mathematical ideas from everyday classical physics can be used to describe the often weird and nonintuitive behavior that occurs at the quantum, subatomic scale.

A light-sensitive crystal is opening the door to a new era of “light-written” technology. Arsenic trisulfide can be reshaped ...

Light does more than illuminate the world—it can also push and twist matter. It was back in the 1870s that James Clerk ...