The scientists behind the MAGIS-100 experiment aim to use state-of-the-art lasers to shed light on ultralight dark matter.

How the world’s biggest laser smashed a nuclear-fusion record The US National Ignition Facility is the only laboratory where a nuclear-fusion reaction has generated more energy than it consumed.

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Department of Energy today announced that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has certified the completion of the historic effort to build the world's largest ...

T he Sun shone brightly on Livermore, California, on 8 June 2011, when researchers charged up the world’s largest laser for its first major fusion experiment. It might have seemed like a good omen for ...