In a first for the field, researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ...

Researchers have discovered a simple yet powerful way to protect atoms from losing information—a key challenge in developing ...

The video of a green laser was not recorded during the Texas wildfires that began in February 2024. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our fact-checking work.

Refraction can cause laser beams to bend along the Earth's surface, making it appear that the Earth is flat.

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The beam isn’t just powerful—it’s quite large. At its biggest, the laser pulse is one foot (0.3 meters) across and several feet long, according to the Michigan release.

Scientists have demonstrated in a first that a powerful laser beam directed at the sky can create a “virtual lightning rod” that can divert the path of lightning strikes.

Researchers have discovered a powerful new way to shield atoms from losing quantum information, a long-standing hurdle in building reliable quantum technologies. By using a single, carefully tuned ...

Creating such a powerful laser has taken time, though, and several experiments since the 1990s have failed to control the lightning as scientists hoped.