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 ...

Aerosols are tiny particles of liquid or solid material that drift through the air and are constantly present in our surroundings. Some are big enough to spot, like spring pollen, while others, ...

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 ...

Discover why lasers could shift air defense, protect ships, and threaten satellites, plus what limits remain before megawatt systems arrive.

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 ...

In the outskirts of Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city, and just dozens of kilometers from the border with Lebanon—a region ...