Is the beam more than just a meme? The Sacramento Kings, a franchise entrenched in the longest playoff drought in NBA history after missing the postseason in each of the past 16 seasons, may finally ...

Lasers are a staple of the science fiction genre, generally used in various seemingly magical technologies or as weapons. Lasers played a significant role in the sci-fi classic Farscape (streaming now ...

Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light signals ...

A laser communications experiment flying aboard NASA’s Psyche mission has beamed back a video to Earth from nearly 19 million miles away — and the short clip stars a cat named Taters. It’s the first ...

An orange tabby named Taters is getting his 15 seconds of fame after NASA streamed an ultra high-definition video of him back to Earth from deep space. The space agency announced Monday that the ...

Neutrino lasers: It’s an idea that many physicists didn’t see coming. At first glance, physics suggests that it would be impossible to make a laser of neutrinos, famously elusive subatomic particles.