For a long time, this may have been the reality for anyone seeking a laser treatment to tighten or tone skin. Today’s lasers, ...

The new tool takes a full picture of laser pulses in one go. It helps scientists fix problems fast in fusion and other energy ...

Our approach uses laser beams to process multiple possibilities simultaneously, dramatically increasing computing power," says Dr. Isaac Nape, the Optica Emerging Leader Chair in Optics at Wits.

Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News articles to Features, and even occasionally writes some. Earth has received a record-breaking laser-beamed ...

When two laser beams crossed, one interfered with the passage of the other. ... Maddy is an editor and writer at IFLScience, with a degree in biochemistry from the University of York.

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