NASA has successfully transmitted data between Earth and two spacecraft using lasers, completing a groundbreaking experiment that could aid in future missions to other worlds. When you purchase ...

The field of nuclear fusion has seen some exciting advances of late, with scientists demonstrating how fuels can be heated to the temperatures needed for the necessary reactions to take place. All are ...

A newly upgraded high-power laser will blaze new trails across many fields of science by recreating the universe’s most extreme conditions, such as those at the heart of stars and planets, in a lab. A ...

Rendering of the Laser Interconnect and Networking Communications System (LINCS) satellites. Credit: General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems WASHINGTON — After a setback in a laser communications ...

Attosecond science has revolutionized the way we look into the time-dependent evolution of the microscopic world, where the behavior of matter is governed by the rules of quantum mechanics. The ...

It's not at every university that laser pulses powerful enough to burn paper and skin are sent blazing down a hallway. But that’s what happened in UMD’s Energy Research Facility, an unremarkable ...