Some innovations in physics come from entirely new technologies, others from fresh theoretical insights. Others still take ...

Earth’s gravitational force, g, has been known for centuries. But the exact value of G, the universal gravitational constant, ...

Measuring the strength of gravity is extraordinarily difficult, and different experiments have always disagreed – but a new ...

Nuclear startup Oklo Inc. is running plutonium experiments at a Nevada facility once reserved for weapons work, partnering ...

Multiple research teams have unveiled advances in laser science, from ultrashort pulses boosting electron emission efficiency to plasma-based techniques creating record-intensity coherent light. These ...

MIT postdoctoral associate Arunav Kumar discusses his work on magnetohydrodynamic stability, plasma control in tokamaks, and ...

Coherent harmonic focus (CHF) generation. The laser is focused on a target, the reflected purple beam forms a CHF of extreme intensity that generates matter from light. Photos of the interaction are ...

An international team of physicists has achieved a significant advance in laser science, demonstrating for the first time a ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford, Queen’s University Belfast, and global partners used the Gemini laser to "compress ...

X, the stellarator experiment in Greifswald, Germany, has built on knowledge gained from its predecessors to demonstrate the ...

What would a chimpanzee do if you handed it a glittering quartz crystal? Apparently, the same thing many of us would—hold ...

Florida State University offers public sessions to explore topics like nuclear physics and quantum materials, with visits to ...