This year's Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded for discoveries in laser physics, recognizes optical tweezers. Now researchers have developed a method that greatly simplifies and improves the use of ...

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three pioneers of the laser technology that has made a big impact on the world. Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland were recognized for their method ...

Scientists who have thrown a single atom from one pair of optical tweezers to another say that the feat could be used to build better quantum computers. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

A team of Harvard chemists made a major breakthrough using some of the smallest particles in the universe. As Science News reports, the researchers have successfully bonded two individual atoms, ...

Facts: optical tweezers The tool was invented by Arthur Ashkin and represents a realisation of his science fiction dream - to use the force field of light to move physical objects. When Arthur Ashkin ...

(Nanowerk News) This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded for discoveries in laser physics, recognizes optical tweezers. Now researchers from the University of Gothenburg have developed a method ...