A newly designed optical centrifuge allows scientists to control molecular rotation inside superfluid helium nano-droplets.

A research team figured out a way to write data onto wafers of glass using lasers, and unlike, for example, a magnetic tape, ...

Forget hard drives. Scientists just figured out how to store all of humanity's data on glass, and it could last longer than most civilizations ever did.

Attosecond pulses enable sub-femtosecond studies of ultrafast electron dynamics. Since 2001, pulse durations have shortened ...

Astrolight will be testing its ATLAS-1 laser terminals in satellites close to Earth for smaller communications service ...

Alexander Graham Bell (18471922) was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist and educator, and the most notable contribution he ...

Taara started as a Google X moonshot spinoff aimed at connecting rural villages in sub-Saharan Africa with beams of light.

A research team in China has built a quantum dot device that produces photon pairs with record-setting purity, achieving a two-photon fraction of 0.983(1). The work, published in Nature Materials, ...

Humans are generating more data than ever before. While much of these data do not need to be stored long-term, some – such as ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by progressive cognitive decline and ...