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Quantum randomness of empty space can be controlled with a laser

The minuscule fluctuations of seemingly empty space can be controlled just enough to make the building blocks of a new type of computer

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Shortest pulse of electrons ever created lasts just 53 attoseconds

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Lasers used to throw and catch single atoms for first time

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AI-controlled robotic laser can target and kill cockroaches

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AI-controlled robotic laser can target and kill cockroaches

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Blasting plastic with powerful lasers turns it into tiny diamonds

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A beam of red light shines through a series of four lenses within a telescope-like device

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Anti-laser can make any object suck in light

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Plasmas could be used to make the world's most powerful laser

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Laser beams crossing in different directions from several different sources

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New kind of laser uses tiny particle clumps to generate light

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A new kind of time crystal has been created and lasts 10 milliseconds

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A specially sculpted laser beam created this photorealistic image of a cat From the researcher: The whole image in the camera (CCD), showing the edges of the (Gaussian) beam, where the dark rectangle background (around the cat) shows the edges of the target image we used to imprint the phase. It is easy to notice it, because it is slightly misaligned with the CCD pixels.

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Scientists made a laser beam shaped like a photorealistic cat

Laser beams normally take the shape of a dot, but by manipulating light with liquid crystals, researchers have bent one into the shape of a photo of a cat

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US Army will test its most powerful laser weapon ever next year

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'5D' storage could hold 10,000 times more data than a Blu-ray disc

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Quantum microscope can examine cells in unprecedented detail

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Laser pulses travel faster than light without breaking laws of physics

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