Last week, following the deadly fires that ripped through Maui, a blurry photo circulated on social media showing a massive explosion lighting up a horizon at dusk. From the flames, a beam of light ...

Lasers were created 60 years ago this year, when three different laser devices were unveiled by independent laboratories in the United States. A few years later, one of these inventors called the ...

Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Getty Images Plus. Last week, following the deadly fires that ripped through Maui, a blurry photo circulated on social media showing a massive explosion lighting ...

A new type of laser is modeled after an exotic class of materials called topological insulators. And it’s proving more reliable and energy-efficient than its conventional counterparts, paving the way ...

Some corners of the right-wing internet are already cooking up a conspiracy theory to explain the fires in California: airborne laser attacks meant to clear the way for high-speed rail. Videos ...

According to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity from 1915, all bodies in a vacuum regardless of their properties are accelerated by the Earth's gravity at the same rate. Under the conditions of ...

Back in 2018, before Marjorie Taylor Greene was a household name and a member of Congress, she took to Facebook to share a convoluted conspiracy theory. She suggested that a solar energy laser ...

Experiments reveal that the laws governing the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang also apply to the behaviour of coupled lasers. The findings could be used to solve complex computational problems.

Solitons have found applications in data transmission but even these gradually dissipate unless the medium they travel through has ultra-low absorbance. Scientists have been working on a solution to ...

You may have noticed that “Jewish Space Laser” has been trending on Twitter. After all, it’s not every day that you see a racial (or other demographic) term and “space laser” used together. Indeed, ...