The same company behind the purple beam atop Golden 1 Center was doing a demonstration of its mobile beam van.

Optical rotatum” is the term researchers coined to describe a newly discovered structure of light. Beams of light that can be ...

Did you see the Folsom beam? A viewer sent us a photo of a beam that lit up the sky on Monday night. The beam wasn’t the ...

That beam in the sky last night? It wasn't the Sacramento Kings, and it wasn't aliens. It was Nu-Salt Laser and Chris ...

Scientists have demonstrated a sort of holographic strip that splits a single laser beam into five bespoke beams that create an optical knot. The work shows that optical knots could be used as a ...

Light can tie knots—literally. Engineers at Duke University have managed to manipulate laser beams to form intricate 3D patterns called optical knots, using custom-designed optics. These twisted beams ...

Designed by renowned Rafael Viñoly Architects, the National Medal of Honor Museum is a tribute to over 3,500 Medal of Honor ...

Did you know some of the brightest sources of light in the sky come from the regions around black holes in the centers of ...

“We show even more versatility of control, and we can do it continuously,” said Alfonso Palmieri, a graduate student in Capasso’s lab and co-author of this research. Potential use cases for such an ...

For many cancer patients, side effects from radiation can be debilitating. But a new way of delivering radiation treatment ...

Illuminate CLE will run every night at the top of each hour starting at dusk, with the last show scheduled for 11 p.m.