Following every win, the Kings have a tradition to “light the beam." It’s a rallying cry that’s energized the franchise, the fanbase and even casual NBA fans near and far.

A surprising trick that allows a beam of light to be completely absorbed even in the thinnest of layers: Using mirrors and lenses, a 'light trap' can be constructed, in which the light beam is ...

The Kings’ victory beam went viral and is a marketing success. Twitter ate it up. Even non-NBA fans know about the chant and the purple light.

To ask if a beam of light can make a shadow sounds like a sort of Zen paradox, but physicists have demonstrated the possibility. They used a laser beam to block another laser beam, albeit with ...

Researchers have found that under certain conditions, a laser beam can act like an opaque object and cast a shadow, opening new possibilities for technologies that could use a laser beam to ...