There are many different types of lasers—almost as many as there are applications for the same—but what ties them all together as a class is that they depend on the same physical effect: stimulated ...

On the very smallest scale, the world is mysterious and counter-intuitive. At this level, things simply don't work the way you'd expect them to, and quantum mechanics is our best attempt at applying a ...

Lasers, heat and a notoriously tricky element are at the center of a quiet revolution in how the United States plans to power ...

Using intense X-rays, researchers captured a buckyball as it expanded, split and shed electrons under strong laser fields. Detailed scattering measurements showed how the molecule behaves at low, ...