The experiment also showed that tuning the light beam controlled the propulsion—the stronger the laser, the greater the ...

A newly published study in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams details a major milestone in accelerator physics: TAU Systems, working with researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has ...

Parabolic flight tests reveal that gravity had been masking nearly all of graphene aerogel's light-driven propulsive ...

Dozens of times over the last decade NASA scientists have launched laser beams at a reflector the size of a paperback novel about 240,000 miles (385,000 kilometers) away from Earth. They announced ...

A beam of electrons crossed just a few millimeters of plasma, then helped trigger an effect that usually belongs to massive ...

Experts at the BELLA Center used dual laser beams focused onto a sheet of gas to reach a milestone energy in laser-driven electron acceleration. Four members of the larger team gathered with the ...

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A string of recent experiments has moved desktop-scale particle accelerators from theoretical curiosity to working prototypes ...

Scientists have found a competitor to the lightning rod — one of the most tried and true methods of controlling where lightning strikes. The new method is far more expensive, but it allowed scientists ...

Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light signals ...