Despite years of promises, the latest budget shows directed energy systems are still largely confined to development and ...

FELs require a bright and stable source of high-energy electron bunches, so today’s facilities are driven by large and ...

Gravitational waves, or spacetime ripples, may have revealed the first evidence of tiny black holes originating from the Big ...

The Martz-Kohl Observatory will host a presentation April 15 by Keith Thorne, who will discuss the collision of black holes ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission is only the tip of the space agency’s lunar-exploration spear: planning for a plethora of ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward probing one of physics’ biggest mysteries—how gravity and quantum mechanics fit ...

A light pulse is technically empty, yet capable of carrying a trillion photons in a single burst. That is part of what makes ...

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have, for the first time, measured the temporal and spectral shape ...

A new, miniature laser source developed by applied physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and ...

An intriguing new study argues that current detection methods might be far, far more difficult than they have to be. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share ...

There’s a simple question at the center of nearly every presidential election and Abigail Spanberger is asking it early. “Let me ask you, the American people three questions: Is the president working ...

In 2016, the first direct observation of gravitational waves was reported. The measurements by the LIGO detectors gave astronomers a new way to observe the Universe. Gudrun Wanner is at the Institute ...