Last year marked the 270th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod — but it’s more than a relic of history. The Franklin rod remains in use today because the simple design exploits some ...

Researchers have demonstrated a solid-state organic laser microcavity fabricated entirely by solution processing. The device ...

An international team of researchers has succeeded in producing atomic quantum gas mixtures with an unprecedented particle ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking technique called RAVEN that can capture the full complexity of an ultra-intense laser pulse in a single shot—something previously thought nearly impossible.

Thomas White is an associate professor in the Department of Physics, and he’s interested in learning about what’s on the inside of planets and the states of matter it exists in. “The easiest question ...

In July 2018, reports about China’s ZKZM-500 laser rifle claimed a portable beam weapon could ignite targets at long range.

NASA is funding the development of lasers that could be placed on the Moon to check for subtle deviations from the standard theory of gravity. Lasers have been used to make very precise measurements ...

Gisela Eckhardt was one of the early pioneers in laser physics, discovering the principle behind the Raman laser in 1962. Valdas Pasiskevicius, Richard Mildren and David Burman tell the largely ...