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16 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: October 21, 2026.
Instead of spacing frames evenly, a new 'logarithmic' imaging method packs them close at the start and spreads them out later, tracing five orders of magnitude in time in a single shot.
Auburn physicists used light to bring order to polar nanoregions in a quantum ferroelectric metal, settling a decades-old question about how the material organizes itself.
Ultraviolet nanosecond pulses added fresh light-emitting flaws in a diamond crystal without disturbing the nitrogen-vacancy centers used in quantum sensors.
A laser-ionized column of air carried a 30 MHz VHF signal with no physical feed. The team says the antenna can be tuned and steered, though receiving signals is not yet demonstrated.
A Romanian team used a high-power laser to build an artificial muon beam and captured the shadow of a pile of lead bricks behind a 2-meter concrete wall.
The result backs a long-suspected 'universal' reconnection rate and says the speed is set inside the thin current sheet, not by the plasma feeding it. Better reconnection models mean better space weather forecasts for satellites and power grids.
The trick replaces a spliced chain of different fiber types with one fiber that compresses its own pulses. The output now spans 0.86 to 2.90 micrometers without getting noisy.
EPFL researchers develop chip-scale ultrafast laser that matches tabletop performance, potentially revolutionizing medical diagnostics and atomic clock technology.
After 20-year quest, researchers create chip-scale ultrafast laser matching performance of room-sized systems, opening door to miniaturized precision technologies.
Researchers capture split-second chaos as copper atoms lose and regain electrons, creating highly charged ions in extreme conditions.
Researchers capture the split-second chaos that unfolds when powerful laser flashes transform matter into superheated plasma, tracking electron behavior in unprecedented detail.
A 25-laser array using structured infrared beams achieved the highest recorded speed for a chip-scale optical wireless transmitter, pointing toward a light-based alternative to crowded radio spectrum.
A penny-sized array of 25 infrared lasers transmitted data 4,500 times faster than Wi-Fi 6 in lab tests, using light instead of radio waves in a breakthrough that could transform office, hospital, and factory connectivity.
Cornell's MOTE device uses laser beams to power and communicate with the world's tiniest wireless neural implant, opening a new path for brain-computer interfaces that require no wires or batteries.
University of Colorado Boulder engineers have built a laser control chip using standard semiconductor manufacturing that could make million-qubit trapped-ion quantum computers physically feasible for the first time.
Physicists at ETH Zurich and the University of Basel published in Nature the first demonstration of all-optical, room-temperature control of a ferromagnet's magnetic orientation, using twisted layers of molybdenum ditelluride and a focused laser beam to switch collective electron spin states permanently.