Right off the bat, we’ll say that this video showing a laser beam stopping in mid-air is nothing but a camera trick. But it’s the trick that’s the hack, and you’ve got to admit that it looks really ...

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For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical ...

During his time as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in Canada, Simon Vallières was approached by a colleague who had made a puzzling observation.

Imagine walking through a field on a cloudless day when you suddenly hear the 130-decibel roar of a fighter jet. But you can’t spot the jet, or even tell which direction the sound is coming from.

A research team in Kiel has demonstrated a previously unknown effect in graphene—a single layer of carbon atoms whose ...

Why fast-response, non-contact temperature sensing is needed in biomedical research. How thin, transparent film is used to create the Seebeck effect to measure temperature. The instrumentation ...

Russia is building a new ground-based laser facility for interfering with satellites orbiting overhead, according to a recent report in The Space Review. The basic idea would be to dazzle the optical ...

In science fiction, it's one zap of a laser gun, and you're dead. But real-life energy weapons likely won't work that way. Take the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) that U.S. Special Forces have begun to ...