Did you know that the LASER had an older cousin that amplified microwaves instead of light. New research has breathed new life into use this old technology and may someday be as useful as LASERs are today.

A team of laser scientists have built a huge petawatt laser – the most powerful of its type in the world. This will now be used to accelerate particles like electrons – again something which has never been achieved.

A team from Ohio State University has just seen atoms inside the molecule jiggle about! This one’s a really cool story, complete with ultrafast lasers and all.

By generating truly random numbers, new laser technology may have a use in online privacy, cryptography and gaming.

Real 3D images created! No, this is not a 2D projection which gives an illusion of 3D – this is the real deal! You use lasers to create plasma! This is just too cool!

CERN scientists trapped the dangerously slippery anti-matter for a record 1000 seconds (or 17 minutes), a huge achievement in terms of anti-matter confinement.

Two independent groups have developed a fiber optic cable capable to transferring data at an incredible rate of 100 Terabits per second. This unbelievable speed is far greater than anything available today.

The Czech Republic intends to build the world’s most powerful laser – an exawatt beast – by 2015. This is a part of the European Union’s commitment to remain at the forefront of research in modern physics.

A team of Japanese researchers has come up with a ceramic lasers that can be triggered every nanosecond for powerful blasts, which hold their intensity over very short ranges. They are just 9 mm in diameters. They might find use in the unlikeliest of places – the engine of a car, sounding the death knell for spark plugs and twitchy car engines.

Researchers at ARC Center of Excellence for Quantum Atom Optics, Research School of Physics, ANU, have successfully guided supercooled Helium atoms through an optical guide made of a laser beam. This is the first ever successful at guiding matter waves.

One of the coolest things in physics is used as a common tool to make things really cold. Lasers are used to cool a bunch of atoms to extremely low temperatures, temperatures in the micro-Kelvin range. Extremely successful, laser cooling is surely one of the hottest topics in Physics.