lasers

Physicists are hoping a trip to the nearest neighbouring solar system could be accomplished in just 20 years.

A team of British researchers has successfully demonstrated the first practical laser grown directly on a lump of silicon.

Star Wars Week Star Wars could have represented something entirely different and a lot more deadly, if Reagan got his way.

Researchers studying why brown dwarfs fail to grow into proper stars have managed to recreate the conditions inside one.

Huge particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider buried below Switzerland could soon be augmented by far-smaller portable units.

A team of physicists has developed a quick, cheap way of laser-printing 2D and 3D holograms on small objects.

A Japanese team has broken the record for the world's most powerful laser beam with a blast from a two-quadrillion-watt monster

A new laser-scanning technique is showing us details of fossils that we've never seen before.

In Depth Meet the miracle technologies of the future that will track you, spy on you and blow you up.

The CSIRO has unveiled Zebedee, a new handheld laser 3D mapping system used to preserve some of Australia's most significant heritage sites.