Military researchers are today working on a way to defend soldiers with ultra-quick laser pulses and mid-air plasma bursts. But similar technology may have been floating around the Defense Department ...

Laser beam interactions with plasma are at the forefront of contemporary high-energy density physics, offering transformative potential in areas ranging from inertial confinement fusion to advanced ...

Researchers who make the coldest plasmas in the universe just found a way to make them even colder — by blasting them with lasers. The scientists cooled the plasma to around 50-thousandths of a degree ...

Scientists have directly demonstrated for the first time how laser beams modify the conditions of a plasma, addressing one of the challenges in the longstanding quest to achieve fusion. New research ...

Riding the wave: electrons being accelerated by a laser pulse. (Courtesy: Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science) Accelerator physicists in five European countries are developing plans for the ...

Translational research: Researchers have performed the first controlled irradiation of tumours in mice using laser-accelerated protons. (Courtesy: HZDR/Juniks) Laser plasma accelerators (LPAs) propel ...

Thought that title might get your attention, but shooting lightning bolts down laser beams is just what a device being developed at the Picatinny Arsenal military research facility in New Jersey is ...

Physicists have discovered a way to trap the world's coldest plasma in a magnetic bottle, a technological achievement that could advance research into clean energy, space weather and solar physics.