Researchers from Trinity College Dublin's School of Engineering have built a powerful new machine that lets us watch precisely what happens when tiny particles—far smaller than a grain of sand—hit a ...

Arthur Ashkin of the U.S., Frenchman Gerard Mourou and Canada's Donna Strickland won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics for their breakthroughs in laser research.

A trio of laser physicists have won shares of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, with photonics-related work recognized for the second successive year. The Nobel committee awarded half of this year’s ...