The research paper reports a breakthrough that will enable gravitational-wave detectors to reach extreme laser powers. It ...

In a paper published earlier this month in Physical Review Letters, a team of physicists led by Jonathan Richardson of the ...

Ripples, like ones produced by raindrops falling in a puddle, are also called capillary waves. Studied since antiquity, they ...

A team of physicists at Fudan University, working with colleagues from Henan University, both in China, and from Nanyang ...

Researchers have developed a novel experimental platform to measure the electric fields of light trapped between two mirrors with a sub-cycle precision. These electro-optic Fabry-Perot resonators will ...

In a paper published earlier this month in Physical Review Letters, a team of physicists led by Jonathan Richardson of the ...

When the experimental XB-1 aircraft achieved supersonic speeds on a test flight, it did not create a disruptive sonic boom – ...

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

Experts say that rings around the moon can pop up from time to time, but have you ever seen one in Denver? Last night, at ...

In a new study, scientists tested the complex layers in the animal's clubs that serve as mighty shields to absorb the shock of the impact ...

Scientists have successfully activated the world’s smallest particle accelerator, a device as compact as a coin. This ...