Scientists have found a way to bend lasers — and may use it to bend lightning as well. A team led by Pavel Polynkin of the University of Arizona sent a special sort of laser beam — pulsed instead of ...

When a beam of energetic electrons travels through a plasma, the space charge at the tip of the beam knocks electrons from the ions in the plasma, leaving the ions with a larger positive charge. If ...

For the first time, scientists were able to show they can bend lightning from a storm with a laser. The project, 20 years in the making, required a super powerful laser to be shot into the sky. The ...

SELF-BENDING light beams capable of turning a corner like a boomerang are darting around an optics laboratory in France. The beams are just a few micrometres across, and could improve the way in which ...

Scientists have demonstrated that a bent silicon crystal can bend the paths of focused, very energetic electron beams much more than magnets used today. The method could be of interest for particle ...

Gilson is part of the Virtual National Laboratory for Heavy-Ion Fusion, a partnership between the PPPL, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley Lab and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. According ...