Laser plasma acceleration is a potentially disruptive technology: It could be used to build far more compact accelerators and ...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (IOF) say that they have built a thulium fiber laser capable of emitting 1.91 kW - nearly double the typical output ...

Medically reviewed by Christine L. Larsen, MD Myopic macular degeneration (MMD), or pathological myopia, occurs when high ...

Lasers are ubiquitous in our daily lives, but do we ever stop to think about the risks they present to our eyes?

Meghan Markle and husband Prince Harry, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, were said to be frustrated Buckingham Palace ...

Grundy County sheriff's deputies seized two shotguns, a rifle, cash and drug at a Reinbeck home while investigating laser strikes on National Guard helicopters in April 2025.

You’re sitting in a doctor’s office with numbing cream spread on your face like buttercream icing on a cake. You’re preparing ...

Researchers have developed a powerful new way to measure ultrashort, high-energy laser pulses in a single shot, solving ...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF have developed powerful thulium fiber laser systems that almost double the previous performance world record.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF have developed powerful thulium fiber laser systems that almost double the previous performance world record.

Shine a laser beam onto a moving object and the way the ... Earth's atmosphere scatters the starlight before it reaches our eyes. However, dynamic scattering media tend to have slower and faster ...

Physicists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory just created a petawatt laser beam with the highest peak power and current ever. This beam was formed from a bunch of electrons that were ...