If you love outdoor adventures, you already know how handy a compact, ultra-bright flashlight can be. At 1,300 lumens, this ...

To reach Earth’s closest star system, Alpha Centauri, scientists are building a laser-powered spacecraft. To pull off ...

Scientists can now snap ultra-powerful laser pulses in one shot. RAVEN reveals distortions instantly, unlocking breakthroughs ...

The word laser usually conjures up an image of a strongly concentrated and continuous light beam. Lasers that produce such light are, in fact, very common and useful. However, science and industry ...

They are the most intense lasers ever built, and their beams are helping scientists probe the fabric of the Universe. Inside a research lab at the University of Michigan, bright green light fills ...

It is these coherent qualities that make laser light so narrow-beamed, so easy to focus and so powerful. Laser light can be focused into a spot with a diameter of only I/10,000th of a centimeter.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has given the go-ahead to upgrade the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), an incredibly powerful X-ray laser used for research.