German project aims to turn fusion lasers into industrial systems capable of 15 shots per second for 24/7 power plants.

Japan has deployed a system that fires laser beams with 100 kilowatts of energy — powerful enough to disable small drones. It was installed on board a 6,200-ton (6.3 million kg) warship.

Xcimer's Phoenix system will be fully complete in H1 2026, Xcimer Energy Co-founder and CEO Conner Galloway said. Phoenix is on-schedule and on-budget, Galloway said in the briefing, also attended by ...

In a first, researchers from the U.S. and Germany excite Thorium-229 in opaque material, advancing optical nuclear clocks.

In physics and materials science, the term "spin chirality" refers to an asymmetry in the arrangement of spins (i.e., the ...

Engineers manage to intertwine several qubits at once, taking the biggest leap yet toward a functional quantum internet.

Borrowing from the playbook of autonomous vehicles, Dreame uses LiDAR tech to achieve what traditional garden toolmakers ...

Eschewing some of the genre's most out-there tropes and concepts, sci-fi movies like Children of Men and Arrival instead opt ...

Moon-Ho Jo, director of the IBS Center for Van der Waals Quantum Solids in Korea, tells Physics World how breakthroughs in ...

Christina Paxson has drawn criticism for her response to this week’s shooting. But those who know her say Brown’s longtime ...

Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...

Quantum chemistry is quietly entering a new phase, one where some of the hardest problems in materials science are finally ...