High-power lasers are often used to modify polymer surfaces to make high-tech biomedical products, electronics and data storage components. Now researchers have discovered a light-responsive, ...

While the raw speed isn't too impressive, it was achieved using a laser with less power than an energy-saving lightbulb.

Space travel can be agonizingly slow: For example, the New Horizons probe took almost 10 years to reach Pluto. Traveling to Proxima Centauri b, the closest habitable planet to Earth, would require ...

The Missile Defense Agency has funded a second investment in an airborne low-power laser for missile defense. In some cases, it has increased initial funding levels by more than 200 percent with its ...

First author PhD candidate Ms Abigail Mann next to the low-power laser, left, ANFF spectroscopist Dr Jason Gascooke and Dr Lynn Lisboa with the 'micro-Lisa' laser image displayed on a regular computer ...