An accidental discovery involving laser beams and particles suspended in light may unravel the mysterious nature of lightning strikes.

In a lab filled with bouncing green lasers and an anti-vibration table that hums a soft, squishy sound, the researchers used ...

As so often happens in science, when Andrea Stöllner's experiments didn't work as expected, they led her to something even ...

Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction, but at the Institute of ...

< ISTA PhD student Andrea Stöllner in front of her experimental setup. Beyond the lab, the physicist a ...

Aerosols are tiny particles of liquid or solid material that drift through the air and are constantly present in our surroundings. Some are big enough to spot, like spring pollen, while others, ...

Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction but at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria ...

I keep coming back to a strange idea: what if everything we know about quantum physics is already encoded inside a single ...

In 1887, one of the most important experiments in the history of physics took place. American scientists Michelson and Morley ...

Several leading quantum gravity theories predict that there is a dependence of the speed of light on photon energy, which would bridge ...

Quantum teleportation isn't science fiction anymore. Scientists sent information between light-emitting devices using ...