Three national laboratories in the Bay Area will participate in the Genesis Mission, a federal program aimed at accelerating ...

Research published Tuesday by a Japanese astrophysicist says gamma rays may have been generated by the collision of dark ...

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest ...

Using intense X-rays, researchers captured a buckyball as it expanded, split and shed electrons under strong laser fields.

A new paper presents evidence of the first direct observation of dark matter, which should be classically impossible.

With the help of carbon nanotubes and laser light, this machine can create immensely powerful X-rays on a microchip, ...

Researchers are trying to design fuel targets that perform under the extreme conditions of a fusion reaction chamber, where ...

The understanding of complex many-body dynamics in laser-driven polyatomic molecules is crucial for any attempt to steer ...

Soon, researchers may be able to create movies of their favorite protein or virus better and faster than ever before. Researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory ...

Light, the American company building the world's most powerful lasers, today announced it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with the U.S. Department of Commerce for $150 million in proposed federal ...

Laser-driven deformation and fragmentation of C60 is recorded in real-time by X-ray imaging. ●  Unexpected response: ...

Southwest Research Institute identified a security vulnerability in a standard protocol governing communications between ...