A boom in new companies and billions of dollars in private investment could make fusion power a reality in the coming decade.

The advance hints at the possibility of portable muon-making devices that could help peer through solid materials for hidden contraband.

Wave-particle interactions across the solar system can have a wide range of effects though they are caused by the same set of ...

Columbia University engineers have created a chip that transforms a single high-power laser into dozens of stable light ...

While developing LiDAR technology, scientists unexpectedly discovered how to generate multiple laser colors from a single ...

Last year, we celebrated 50 years since the first papers on fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) were published. It ...

Optical lattice clocks are emerging timekeeping devices based on tens of thousands of ultracold atoms trapped in an optical ...

The team achieved a record-breaking coherence time of 12.6 seconds—the longest ever for hyperfine qubits in an optical ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the Universe and exploring ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...