Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A major scientific breakthrough could change how we understand and control ionization — the process where atoms lose electrons and ...

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For more than half a century, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been built on the assumption that if aliens exist and try to communicate, their signals will be faint, scattered, and ...

Under the right conditions, a chaotic mess of laser light can spontaneously self-organize into a highly focused “pencil beam.” This schematic shows the pencil beam formation mechanism. CAMBRIDGE, MA - ...