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Tiny lasers can be made from soap bubbles

Shining light on bubbles made from soapy water mixed with a fluorescent dye turns them into tiny lasers that can work as pressure sensors

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Atom-by-atom recordings track what happens after substances dissolve

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Tiniest particle accelerator is so small it could fit into a pen tip

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Quantum randomness of empty space can be controlled with a laser

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Shortest pulse of electrons ever created lasts just 53 attoseconds

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Lasers used to throw and catch single atoms for first time

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AI-controlled robotic laser can target and kill cockroaches

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AI-controlled robotic laser can target and kill cockroaches

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Blasting plastic with powerful lasers turns it into tiny diamonds

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A beam of red light shines through a series of four lenses within a telescope-like device

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Anti-laser can make any object suck in light

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Plasmas could be used to make the world's most powerful laser

Because plasma can shape very intense light without being damaged, it could be used to make components for lasers thousands of times more powerful than the strongest ones that exist

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Laser beams crossing in different directions from several different sources

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New kind of laser uses tiny particle clumps to generate light

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A new kind of time crystal has been created and lasts 10 milliseconds

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A specially sculpted laser beam created this photorealistic image of a cat From the researcher: The whole image in the camera (CCD), showing the edges of the (Gaussian) beam, where the dark rectangle background (around the cat) shows the edges of the target image we used to imprint the phase. It is easy to notice it, because it is slightly misaligned with the CCD pixels.

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Scientists made a laser beam shaped like a photorealistic cat

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US Army will test its most powerful laser weapon ever next year

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