Like bakers measuring the exact same amount of flour every time they made bread, physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have used a laser trap to consistently capture and measure the same ...

Scientists have constructed an innovative new optical trap that can grab and scan tiny elongated bacteria with the help of a laser. The physicists created a kind of light tube that traps the agile ...

With the innovative new optical tweezers developed by the Freiburg researchers, a quickly moving, focused laser beam holds a tiny, spiral-shaped bacterium in place and records its movements in detail.

A single green laser, a glass bead smaller than a bacterium and a lab in Austria are helping you see lightning in a new way.

March 20 (UPI) --For the first time, scientists have trapped a particle-based microlaser inside an optical cable. The breakthrough could allow scientists to deliver laser light to hard to reach ...

Got a bit of a pest problem? [Chad] built a better squirrel/rabbit/thing trap using a soekris box, a laser pointer, serial controlled relay and a small motor. When the laser beam is broken, the ...

Since the first laser was invented in 1960, they have given off heat, whether used as a tool in industry or as a fictional way to vanquish intergalactic enemies. But the concentrated beams of light ...