This opens the door to a new way of doing science, one in which humans are not the sole architects of experimentation. Artificial intelligence has begun to tackle a task once thought to be uniquely ...

Convention has it that quantum mechanics and thermodynamics cannot be true simultaneously - so say scientists at the University of Twente ("UT"), The Netherlands. But now, in a new journal paper, UT ...

For the first time, a quantum radiation reaction in strong electromagnetic fields has been demonstrated experimentally by allowing electrons to collide with an extremely intense and powerful laser ...

Every new generation of phone display, television screen and solar panel is the result of precision optics experiments, which use lasers and other light sources to measure the optical properties of ...

Quantum entanglement experiments hinge on two things: the optics chain, which sets the quality of the entangled state, and the single-photon detectors, which define how reliably you can measure it.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.. 12 June 2009. The Newport Corp. Spectra-Physics Lasers Division in Mountain View, Calif., is introducing an ultrafast laser amplifier system with optimized dual outputs for ...