Could lasers guide and control the path of lightning?
New method to steer electric discharges around an obstacle uses laser beams
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Frequency combs smooth out optical-fibre signals
Research could mean higher bandwidth for optical fibres, and so more data
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Lasers reveal previously unseen fossil details
New palaeontological imaging method is cheap and non-destructive
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Tunable plasmon laser could sniff out cancer
Liquid gain material could turn tiny lasers into chemical and biological sensors
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The masters of antimatter
A look inside CERN's Antimatter Factory and a day in the life of an antimatter tamer
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‘Twisted light’ gives quantum cryptography a boost
Technique could make cryptographic systems more resilient to eavesdroppers
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Web life: International Year of Light 2015 Blog
Celebrating light, all year long
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Filamentous laser beams point to new type of phase transition
Clustering threads of plasma could help control lightning and seed clouds
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New optical fibre shortens laser pulses the easy way
Kagome structure and noble gas work together to create short, powerful infrared bursts
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A single light of science
An introduction to the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015)
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