There are many applications for particle accelerators, even outside research facilities, but for the longest time they have been large, cumbersome machines, not to mention very expensive to operate.

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is still experimenting with hooking up remote towns to the Internet via frickin’ laser beams. Today, Alphabet’s moonshot “X Lab” shared an update on Project Taara, ...

Companies are looking to commercialize advances made by federally supported research labs in the quest for boundless energy. By Kenneth Chang Take a smidgen of hydrogen, then blast it with lasers to ...

Final tests of NASA's laser beam communication technology suggests we'll soon have a new way to keep in touch with astronauts and spacecraft venturing into deep space. Final tests of NASA's laser beam ...

Diffraction gratings could allow laser-sailing craft to hold the line. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Spacecraft could fly to ...

Forward-looking: Columbia University researchers have developed a compact photonics chip capable of producing dozens of laser wavelengths from a single high-power source, a breakthrough that could ...

For the first time, scientists were able to show they can bend lightning from a storm with a laser. The project, 20 years in the making, required a super powerful laser to be shot into the sky. The ...