Is the truth about aliens out there? One town wants to find out. A community in Kentucky has come up with an unusual approach to promoting tourism – the world's first interstellar tourism campaign.

A new study from MIT suggests that the light from a laser could spark the interest from aliens if they exist. The powerful laser would be focused through a telescope aimed toward space. The study's ...

Alien planets are far away but extreme lasers on Earth are giving scientists a way to investigate what they're like.

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Researchers using custom fabricated nanostructures that 'trap' light have created a new exotic state of matter with light at ...

Researchers have found that under certain conditions, a laser beam can act like an opaque object and cast a shadow, opening new possibilities for technologies that could use a laser beam to control ...

For the experiment, a high-power green laser was directed through ruby cube and illuminated with a blue laser from the side. The green laser increases the optical absorption of the blue illuminating ...