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Developed a way to bend light into a vortex ring using mirrors, lasers and lenses

Using mirrors, lasers, and lenses, a team of researchers from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and the University of Dayton created a method for bending light into a vortex ring. The scientists relied on previous work by other teams in which...

Tiny probes could sail to outer planets with the help of low-power lasers

Space travel can be agonizingly slow. The New Horizons probe took almost 10 years to reach Pluto. Traveling to Proxima Centauri b would require thousands of years with even the biggest rockets. Although it is the closest habitable planet to Earth. New research calculated...