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Antimatter atoms can be precisely manipulated and cooled with lasers

Physics

Antimatter atoms can be precisely manipulated and cooled with lasers

Antimatter atoms are notoriously tough to control, but they have now been cooled using lasers for the first time, enabling us to search for how they differ from regular matter

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satellites

Physics

Photonic laser thruster could power spacecraft from Earth

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Laser weapon

Technology

The US Army is building the most powerful laser weapon in the world

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Lidar beam

Technology

Single particles of light can be used for remote 3D surveillance

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Watch a beam of light bounce off mirrors in ultra-slow motion

Physics

Watch a beam of light bounce off mirrors in ultra-slow motion

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Huge underground lasers measure Earth’s spin with extreme precision

Physics

Huge underground lasers measure Earth’s spin with extreme precision

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The US Navy patented a device to make laser ‘ghost planes’ in mid-air

Technology

The US Navy patented a device to make laser ‘ghost planes’ in mid-air

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Chilled nanoparticles

Physics

This tiny glass bead has been quantum chilled to near absolute zero

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National Ignition Facility Laser System

Physics

Blasting lead with 160 lasers makes it incredibly strong, then explode

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A laser set up

Physics

New kind of light is a vortex beam that twists faster as it moves

A laser beam can be twisted and move like a vortex, and for the first time researchers have made one that has different twists along the length of the beam

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Space

Black holes and lasers could let us cheat at interstellar travel

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The hidden cities revealed by lasers

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Physics

The emptiness of space has a structure we could use to send messages

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What do you do with the world's most powerful laser?

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