A vast field of tall, skinny trees sways in a light breeze. In the future, poplar trees in a scene like this could be a ...

Produced for the Central Laser Facility (CLF) at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL ... to optimise the performance of ultra-high power pulsed lasers. All surface accuracies are checked ...

Satellite images reveal China is building a massive laser fusion facility, which can be used in nuclear weapons research as ...

Just a short distance outside of Fort Collins on the Colorado State University Foothills Campus sits one of the most powerful lasers in the world. Directed by professors and run by graduate students ...

"At NIF, we use the high-power laser beam instead of an electron beam to make the X-rays by 'crashing' the beam into silver atoms and creating a plasma." The choice of silver is important ...

High-powered lasers have transformed the way researchers explore extreme physical phenomena, pushing the boundaries of ...

China is building a gigantic laser-ignited fusion power laboratory that is 50pc larger than its US counterpart as the two ...

Western governments and investors have spent much of the last week fretting about scientific breakthroughs from China.

The U.S. Navy is arming its destroyers with a high-powered, long-range laser weapon. The High-Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-Dazzler with Surveillance (HELIOS) is now being integrated onto the ...

Caltech researchers develop a platform to characterize ultrathin membranes for lightsails, advancing the quest for ...

The Navy has disclosed that the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Preble successfully test-fired its High-Energy Laser with ...