Laser light can lift and steer tiny chips in three dimensions, demonstrating a new form of propulsion for spacecraft.

A spacecraft that could reach the nearest star system in about 20 years would need to travel at a meaningful fraction of the ...

Alpha Centauri sits more than four light-years away, close enough to fascinate generations of dreamers and far enough to make ...

Experiments have identified two main types of “breathing” behavior. When the laser operates above the minimum power needed to ...

Researchers from Bar-Ilan University have successfully recreated key features of black hole physics in a laboratory setting ...

A tiny silica bead, just 100 nanometers across, sits suspended in a vacuum and vibrates under the grip of laser light. Those ...

Thin films might not come up in conversation every day, but they are all around us. Take the metallic plastic films of chip ...

Ultra-intense ultrashort lasers have a wide-ranging scope of applications, encompassing basic physics, national security, industrial service, and health care. In basic physics, such lasers have become ...

Strong field laser physics investigates the interaction between intense laser pulses and matter, a domain where non-linear phenomena such as multiphoton absorption, tunnelling ionisation, and ...