Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Technical University of Vienna (TU Wien) have invented a new type of tunable semiconductor laser that ...

LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology has grown in popularity due to its ability to measure distance with high ...

Armed with blue, green and red lasers, physics professor and blogger Rhett Allain walks through some curious interactions between light and matter.

As the turntable spins the record, optical sensors detect the laser reflections from the grooves' walls. The measured variations create an electronic signal similar to that produced by a ...

On May 24, 2024, Nasa's LRO transmitted a laser pulse to a small retroreflector aboard JAXA's SLIM lander during two successive orbits, approximately 44 miles above the lunar surface.

Laser beam reflections between Earth and Moon 'a boost for science,' says NASA 12 Aug 2020 Notable discoveries include that the Earth and Moon are slowly drifting apart – at “fingernail growth” rate.

Ukraine has developed a laser weapon capable of shooting down targets from more than a mile away, the country’s drone force commander has claimed Speaking at a defense summit in Kyiv this week ...

It was the first time a controlled laser mark test has been done on these animals in a wild setting and strengthens the evidence from other studies that monkeys don't recognise their own reflection.