The next frontier in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology is all about keeping these aircraft fueled indefinitely. If we ...

Measuring conditions in volatile clouds of superheated gases known as plasmas is central to pursuing greater scientific ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Technology; DOI   10.29026/oet.2025.250011, discusses integrated photonic synapses, neurons, memristors, and neural networks for photonic neuromorphic computing.

Caltech scientists have developed a way to guide light on silicon wafers with low signal loss approaching that of optical ...

Vector databases emerged as a must-have technology foundation at the beginning of the modern gen AI era. What has changed over the last year, however, is that vectors, the numerical representations of ...

For years, Black women have been told that laser hair removal and other laser-based skin treatments weren’t safe for us. This is because many of us grew up hearing horror stories about burns, scars, ...

Matt Katz (left) and Jake Welty (right) reveal the one-of-one Vector M12 racecar. Video by Drew Manley (Cooled Collective) In a nondescript storage facility on the outskirts of Los Angeles, a small ...

A quadcopter drone burns after being hit by a laser weapon system at Camp Roberts, California, Feb. 6, 2025. (Dan Linehan/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Army aims to produce up to 20 high-energy laser weapons to ...

A man accused of shining a laser pointer at presidential helicopter Marine One with President Trump aboard was arrested on federal charges Monday. Jacob Samuel Winkler, 33, of Washington, D.C., is ...

Plasma, ionized gas and the fourth state of matter, makes up over 99% of the ordinary matter in the universe. Understanding its properties is critical for developing fusion energy sources, modeling ...

Our research is supported through a 7-km atmospheric optics testbed with continuously operating sensors for measurement of atmospheric turbulence strength and meteorological data. The lab's research ...

Programmable optics startup Lumotive has added a few more strategic backers to its recent Series B round. Redmond, Washington-based Lumotive reopened its recent Series B funding round to bring in ...